Went to dicks to check out some lacrosse gear. Asked and was told lacrosse was in the back. couldn’t find anything, then asked someone else. They apparently didn’t know lacrosse was a sport.
Kept asking if it was football or baseball and didn’t get it. No idea where they were originally sending us if they didn’t even know what it was.
Turns out, no lacrosse equipment in this specific store, online only.
Dicks Sporting goods doesn’t really sell sporting goods anymore. Just high priced clothing and all types of Yeti merchandise.
GENERAT10N_D00M on
Hey I guarantee they thought you asked where ‘Lacoste’ was. You know, the clothing company with the alligator logo. 😂😂
nedyah715 on
The only thing worth buying at Dick’s sporting goods is quench gum, and you can just get that at Big5.
JC1515 on
Aside from a golf and baseball department, Dicks is a giant athletic wear and water bottle store. As these stores have evolved, institutional investors demand higher returns and the only way they do that is shrinking purpose based departments and replace that floor space with clothing, accessories and knick knack gifts which have the highest margins out of anything else in the store. Go into any Cabelas or bass pro in their post merger environment. It was so expensive for bass pro to acquire cabelas, the private equity firms and other investors demanded bass pro to redesign both bass pro and cabelas floorspace by shrinking departments. Specifically in all Cabelas stores, they shrank all departments by close to 50% the departments that drove people to shop there, and replace them with overpriced clothing that would trap impulsive buyers when they cant find what they needed from a department that previously carried the item they came in for. Brick and mortar stores are a shell of what they used to be. dicks doesnt carry anything for lacrosse because its a low margin product and to this day not many people play the sport compared to baseball, golf, football or soccer. Its the same for all departments and sporting goods stores. Investors are limiting what can be shopped for in physical stores.
Robotcharles on
They chuckled at me when I asked about rollerblading equipment
AntifaMiddleMgmt on
Weird, they are remodeling the one closest to us, and there’s an entire lacrosse section now. Still undergoing some work, but it’s next to the baseball/softball section, which has a very softball focused vibe.
This is not sarcasm. I got my daughter indoor cleats there on Friday. That store has been under work for 6 months now, but they’re getting close. The amount of women’s sports offerings and advertisements was pretty impressive. And they had a lacrosse area with some actual marketing material so you know what it is. I’m in the Midwest, lacrosse isn’t huge yet, but it’s pretty cool.
The golf and outdoor sports areas are getting smaller, along with the licensed apparel area. It seems baseball, softball, and soccer got bigger spaces now.
JackHughman69 on
That’s a big Dicks, it could be buried in the back somewhere
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Dicks Sporting goods doesn’t really sell sporting goods anymore. Just high priced clothing and all types of Yeti merchandise.
Hey I guarantee they thought you asked where ‘Lacoste’ was. You know, the clothing company with the alligator logo. 😂😂
The only thing worth buying at Dick’s sporting goods is quench gum, and you can just get that at Big5.
Aside from a golf and baseball department, Dicks is a giant athletic wear and water bottle store. As these stores have evolved, institutional investors demand higher returns and the only way they do that is shrinking purpose based departments and replace that floor space with clothing, accessories and knick knack gifts which have the highest margins out of anything else in the store. Go into any Cabelas or bass pro in their post merger environment. It was so expensive for bass pro to acquire cabelas, the private equity firms and other investors demanded bass pro to redesign both bass pro and cabelas floorspace by shrinking departments. Specifically in all Cabelas stores, they shrank all departments by close to 50% the departments that drove people to shop there, and replace them with overpriced clothing that would trap impulsive buyers when they cant find what they needed from a department that previously carried the item they came in for. Brick and mortar stores are a shell of what they used to be. dicks doesnt carry anything for lacrosse because its a low margin product and to this day not many people play the sport compared to baseball, golf, football or soccer. Its the same for all departments and sporting goods stores. Investors are limiting what can be shopped for in physical stores.
They chuckled at me when I asked about rollerblading equipment
Weird, they are remodeling the one closest to us, and there’s an entire lacrosse section now. Still undergoing some work, but it’s next to the baseball/softball section, which has a very softball focused vibe.
This is not sarcasm. I got my daughter indoor cleats there on Friday. That store has been under work for 6 months now, but they’re getting close. The amount of women’s sports offerings and advertisements was pretty impressive. And they had a lacrosse area with some actual marketing material so you know what it is. I’m in the Midwest, lacrosse isn’t huge yet, but it’s pretty cool.
The golf and outdoor sports areas are getting smaller, along with the licensed apparel area. It seems baseball, softball, and soccer got bigger spaces now.
That’s a big Dicks, it could be buried in the back somewhere