The Sportsman's Warehouse in Columbia, SC is terrible. The shelves for ammo and reloading are either bare or simply filled in with whatever surplus merchandise they have on hand to take up space. The latter is almost like they're mocking their customers for being so naive as to expecting to find anything.
If you ask a question, you get a bare minimum reply like, "We get our shipments on Thursday mornings."
I am personally fed up with ALL of these big box chain stores. And, I'm really perplexed by the widespread thinking that companies like these somehow deserve our trust that A) they really care about the needs of dedicated shooters and (especially) reloaders, and B) that any of the employees or "management" working in these retail locations have a clue as to what's going on in terms of corporate decisions or policies.
The whole thing seems designed to keep customers in the dark and overly dependent on a near corporate monopoly. Do any of the cities where stores like Cabela's, Sportsman's Warehouse, Academy, etc. have any remaining independently owned local gun shops? 20-30 years ago, Columbia SC, just as an example, had several choices of LGSs. They're all gone now except for Shooter's Choice (which should change its name to Prepper's Choice).
American consumers have been so conditioned into looking at big box stores as the answer to all of their household "in person" shopping needs, that they seem to have forgotten that all they're in it for is profit.
We took for granted independent locally owned businesses when they needed our patronage the most. Now they're gone and we're outta luck.
Apparently taking over one of our six empty
