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Slung Blade posted:There is no fuckin excuse to not make buckets of cash as an outdoor gear supplier this year. It sounds like they were so short on cash they couldn't buy gear from anyone who wasn't willing to offer 90 day terms. If you're a gear manufacturer and you can't keep up with orders at all (which was everyone this summer) you're not going to short ship an order to a store that will pay you up front or at NET 30 and instead send it to someone who says they won't pay for 3 months (if they pay at all). Unless the new owners are willing to close far more of the retail outlets than they are talking about, I don't see much changing from an outdoor enthusiast's point of view. There's no way you can pay the rent on shiny city centre stores without shuffling hundreds of customers through every hour. So maybe they will consolidate down to only one brand of yoga pants and a handful of rain coats, but the focus will still have to be on yoga pants and rain coats. They can't fill a 30,000ft store with just technical equipment (or even staff such a store with people knowledgeable about technical equipment) and make a profit so there isn't going to be a return to the model of 15 years ago. Definitely still room for someone to step in and become the main online source for this stuff in Canada, maybe they'll figure that out. Kreez fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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