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Zippy-The-Pinhead
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 7:01 pm 
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I think Dick's first venture in this area was buying the Galyan's megacenter in Schaumburg.

The Sports Authority bankruptcy is just another example (many more to come) of businesses borrowing too much cheap money and then realizing they can't pay it back.

I'd say it's more the result of death by Internet...many more to come. What does SA sell that can't be bought for less $ on-line. A quick search brings up multiple products choices, end user reviews, easy to compare pricing and (frequently) free shipping. How does a big box store - with overhead, staffing, etc. - compete with that?

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Zippy-The-Pinhead wrote:
Jaw Breaker wrote:
I think Dick's first venture in this area was buying the Galyan's megacenter in Schaumburg.

The Sports Authority bankruptcy is just another example (many more to come) of businesses borrowing too much cheap money and then realizing they can't pay it back.

I'd say it's more the result of death by Internet...many more to come. What does SA sell that can't be bought for less $ on-line. A quick search brings up multiple products choices, end user reviews, easy to compare pricing and (frequently) free shipping. How does a big box store - with overhead, staffing, etc. - compete with that?



They can't.

They will start holding fire sales next week.

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Because they don't like Dick's

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Morrie staked his kid Jeff (who's probably now in his late 60s if he's still alive) to the original Irving's for Red Hot Lovers across from Edens Plaza in Wilmette. Not the brightest bulb on the electric menorah, and in retrospect probably high as a kite half of the time, being a 20-something in the 70s.

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Zippy-The-Pinhead wrote:
Jaw Breaker wrote:
I think Dick's first venture in this area was buying the Galyan's megacenter in Schaumburg.

The Sports Authority bankruptcy is just another example (many more to come) of businesses borrowing too much cheap money and then realizing they can't pay it back.

I'd say it's more the result of death by Internet...many more to come. What does SA sell that can't be bought for less $ on-line. A quick search brings up multiple products choices, end user reviews, easy to compare pricing and (frequently) free shipping. How does a big box store - with overhead, staffing, etc. - compete with that?


Correct. Amazon and Walmart will pretty much put everyone else out of business and rule the world.
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My two kids needed spikes and running shoes. As they are grown into their reliable size internet it was.

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Jaw Breaker wrote:
I think Dick's first venture in this area was buying the Galyan's megacenter in Schaumburg.

The Sports Authority bankruptcy is just another example (many more to come) of businesses borrowing too much cheap money and then realizing they can't pay it back.



I think it was that the Lombard one and the one off of rand all at the same time iirc.
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ALL stores will be closing...

http://cbs12.com/news/local/sports-auth ... 05-23-2016

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I guess they're going the way of Woolworth's...

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I had gift card. When talk of liquidation started a few weeks ago I literally ran to the one at randhurst and redeemed it. Wanted to do it before there was nothing left and/or I was stuck with a worthless card.

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now ima have to go 20 miles to buy a baseball.

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Drake LaRrieta wrote:
I guess they're going the way of Woolworth's...


Just Like Venture and Zayre went the way of the Dodo Bird... And soon to be Kmart and Sears in the near future (within 3 years my prediciton).

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Does this mean it's just going to be called Mile High Stadium like the old one?

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Curious Hair wrote:
Does this mean it's just going to be called Mile High Stadium like the old one?


We're coming to you live from Chapter 11 Stadium...no one can hear us because we didn't pay the electricity bill, but the Broncos are playing the Raiders today anyway...at least until the sun goes down.

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Any time you are in Dinver, and the stadium does not have a name, that is going to cause sponsors and companies to want to come down and buy some of the rights. If they do that, they have advertising, and their name is out there, and we see billboards with their ads. So that is what happens when a company buys a stadium, or at least the name to that stadium, like the one here in Dinver.

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Curious Hair wrote:
Does this mean it's just going to be called Mile High Stadium like the old one?


We're coming to you live from Chapter 11 Stadium...no one can hear us because we didn't pay the electricity bill, but the Broncos are playing the Raiders today anyway...at least until the sun goes down.


:lol:

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Drake LaRrieta wrote:
I guess they're going the way of Woolworth's...


Just Like Venture and Zayre went the way of the Dodo Bird... And soon to be Kmart and Sears in the near future (within 3 years my prediciton).


I'm not sure how Sears has made it this long.

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