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Sportsman’s Warehouse To Shut Sites

Update: Idaho Statesman reports that CDA store will be sold to Canada firm

In a teleconference with all Sportsman’s Warehouse employees yesterday afternoon CEO Stu Upgaard announced that 23 of the company’s 67 stores would be closing in the next few months, including two stores in Idaho (Pocatello and Nampa), one in Oregon (Bend) and one in Colorado (Aurora). Other Idaho stores and all Montana stores would remain open/Bill Schneider, New West. More here.

Question: Where do you shop for outdoor sports items?

15 comments on this post so far. Add yours!
  • cantyoureadthesigns on March 10 at 2:28 p.m.

    That story is misleading and confusing. It says the Nampa and CdA stores are closing in the beginning, then in the list of stores being liquidated, it lists the Nampa store, and in the list of stores being sold to a Canadian company, it lists the CdA store…

    If the CdA store IS closing, it’s probably because it lost a lot of business to the new Cabela’s in PF.

  • Liz on March 10 at 2:54 p.m.

    I get my stuff online: LL Bean is great.

  • keithincda on March 10 at 3:19 p.m.

    Buy local…Black Sheep has great selection and prices…

  • Bent on March 10 at 3:50 p.m.

    I read that too Cantyoureadthesigns. DFO, someone ought to clarify if Cd’A is closing or not… You wouldn’t want to worry employees unnecessarily…

    If they do liquidate, I’m going shopping. I need a new wall tent

    Otherwise, I will buy mine at blacksheep.

  • DFO on March 10 at 4:18 p.m.

    I’ve modified that original post after trying in vain to contact UFA in Calgary, Alberta. The reporter may have inadvertently written “Coeur d’Alene and Nampa” as the Idaho stores targetted for closing when he meant “Pocatello and Nampa.” Pocatello is listed among the 23 stores slated for closure further down in the story while the Coeur d’Alene store is listed among the 15 targetted for acquisition by the Canadian corporation. Sounds like Sportsman’s Warehouse employees were told what’s going to happen. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for the Coeur d’Alene store.

  • Cindy_H on March 10 at 5:20 p.m.

    “Where do you shop for outdoor sports items?”

    There are only two types of stores that bring out the whiny 3-year-old in me: sporting goods stores and home improvement stores.
    So, of course God gave me four sons. Lots of sporting goods needed, and one husband who forever plans to fix up something in our home. Something that needs my opinion/approval. Something that never actually gets done.
    There’s a whole column there, but after reading the threads about ex’s, I probably won’t write it.
    However, I would like to announce that I went to Home Depot on Sunday and bought paint. All by myself. Without whining.

  • mia on March 10 at 7:31 p.m.

    Cindy, I find home improvement stores suck the life out of me. Sometimes I have to make the trip for my husband out of necessity, these days, so I shore up my life reserves by going to Eddie Bauer, Ross and Pier 1 in Lewiston, before I enter Home Depot, so I won’t die, unattended. Fivers for going to Home Depot by yourself on Sunday!

  • Cindy_H on March 10 at 7:49 p.m.

    Thanks, Mia.
    You know, I think I owe myself an afternoon at Ross.
    Yes, I do :-)

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