Wait, what? You mean a sporting goods company banning the sale of all firearms to anyone under 21 is seeing a drop in their sales?
Gosh, we feel shocked.
Oh, wait, no we don’t.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Sales Sink After New Gun Policy https://t.co/s9dSCukfI1 via @JohnsonHildy pic.twitter.com/JAnrnT3lsQ
— National Review (@NRO) March 22, 2018
From NRO:
Dick’s Sporting Goods has suffered a surprisingly steep downturn in sales since promising to sell fewer guns, but the problem isn’t the gun sales, Fortune says.
Stock tumbled to the lowest in four months after the sports store banned assault-style weapons from its Field & Stream stores and raised the minimum age for a customer to buy a firearm from 18 to 21.
We warned them.
The decision is “not going to be positive from a traffic standpoint and a sales standpoint,” Stack predicted.
The company’s shares fell 7.3 percent after going up 13 percent this year. Sales failed to hit the projected $2.74 billion, tapering off at $2.66 billion for this quarter.
They didn’t listen.
https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/976847427729838080
Right? Super shocking.
https://twitter.com/blazerdude2/status/976848212115025921
Hey, that’s our joke.
Or is it?
https://twitter.com/PiccardFrancis/status/976846422443282435
Dick’s tried to appeal and pander to a group of people who don’t really shop for sporting goods in the first place, at the risk of losing the people who do.
Dick’s really screwed up.
Don’t be Dick’s.
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