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Jusme wrote:

puma guy wrote:Visited the Sugarland, TX Gander Mountain store today and I wasn't impressed with their "going out of business" sale. Big banners displaying 30% discounts, but the most on items I was interested in was 15%. No guns or ammo are discounted. I asked a salesman if the firearms would be transferred to other stores and he stated they had to stay there. He believed in 2-4 weeks they will start discounting the guns, beginning at 5%. Since their prices are so high it will be 6 months until they can match Academy. I'm sure it was a mistake, but they had a Bersa Thunder marked at $569! There were very few sales personnel and I stood around quite a while before a guy with three pizzas in his hand showed up and went behind the gun counter. Then two other guys appeared and one who apparently wasn't hungry assisted me. I think some of their fishing gear is discounted at 30%.

Yes bad business decisions, cause bad business. They could have been a great place, I used to buy from them when t hey had only catalog sales in this area. I'm sure the CEO has "golden umbrella" and will make out like a bandit. They never trained their employees properly, or tried to be competitive on prices. They usually had a bigger gun selection than Cabelas, but couldn't even beat them on price. They tried to have the same market saturation as Academy, but treated customers like a nuisance.