Planning to get a workout in this afternoon? You might want to rethink using those stretchy resistance bands: More than 207,000 pieces of the workout equipment sold at Dick’s Sporting Goods have been recalled as they pose an injury risk. [More]
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Hopes Discounted Prices Will Save It From Doom
By 8.15.17
Let’s take a moment to pay our respects to the dearly departed sporting good stores who have passed on in recent years: Sports Authority, Gander Mountain, Eastern Mountain Sports, Sport Chalet, Golfsmith and we’re probably missing a few. Dick’s Sporting Goods has fed on the bones of some of its former competitors, taking over their locations and inventory, but it still needs a plan to stave off the doom that consumed so many of its competitors. [More]
Report: Dick’s Won Auction For Golfsmith’s Intellectual Property, U.S. Stores
By 10.21.16
According to “a person familiar with the matter,” Dick’s Sporting Goods picked up the U.S. business and intellectual property of bankrupt specialty retailer Golfsmith for $70 million, as expected. Serving as its caddies for this round were well-known names in the retail liquidation business, Hilco Global and Tiger Capital Group. [More]
Don’t Forget: Time’s Almost Up To Opt Out Of Sports Authority’s Sale Of Your Information
By 9.15.16
When you give your e-mail address or other personal data or contact information to a company, the privacy policy usually spells out that your data will be sold along with other assets if the company is bankrupt or sold. That’s the case with former sports retailer Sports Authority, which is about to send its customer data over to its victorious competitor, Dick’s Sporting Goods… unless you opt out. [More]
Sports Authority Bankruptcy Means Now Dick’s Sporting Goods Owns 114M Customer Records
By 7.1.16
Sports Authority is no more. The sporting goods store folded earlier this year, and for the past few weeks all their assets have been up on the auction block. That included all their intellectual property, which was snapped up this week by competitor Dick’s Sporting Goods. And that now means that if you were a Sports Authority customer, Dick’s just bought your information. [More]
Report: Dick’s Wins Sports Authority Brand, Including Domain Names
By 6.30.16
In the future, when you forget that Sports Authority went out of business and type in their website address, you’ll end up on a page owned by the defunct retailer’s biggest competitor. Dick’s Sporting Goods reportedly scooped up the Sports Authority name, including its domain names and customer mailing lists, for $15 million in the company’s intellectual property auction. [More]
Dick’s Will Bid For Maybe 2 Dozen Sports Authority Leases After Stores Close
By 5.20.16
When Sports Authority locations and their merchandise went up for sale in the first round of auctions after the retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, experts thought that the chain’s biggest competitor might bid for up to 100 stores to snap up areas where it doesn’t already do business. Dick’s did bid for some stores, but ultimately lost out to liquidators. That’s okay, though, the company’s CEO explained during an earnings call this week: they’ll go for the store leases after the locations they want close. [More]
Why Are So Many Sporting Goods Stores Going Bankrupt?
By 4.19.16
196. That’s the number of sporting goods stores that are set to close after two retail companies filed for bankruptcy in recent weeks. While the failures of Vestis Retail Group — the operator of retailers Eastern Mountain Sports, Sport Chalet, and Bob’s — and Sports Authority were accelerated by mountains of debt both incurred in recent years, there’s more at work when it comes to the apparent demise of sporting goods retailers. [More]
Sagging Sports Authority May Sell Stores To Dick’s
By 3.1.16
Last week, it was reported that Sports Authority is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the hope of restructuring its business and shedding hundreds of million in debt. Now comes news that this rebuild may involve selling some of its retail locations to competitors like Dick’s Sporting Goods. [More]
Dick’s Sporting Goods: Relax, There Will Still Be Plenty Of Adidas Stuff On Shelves
By 3.4.15
Yesterday we heard that Dick’s Sporting Goods stores would be ditching some Adidas and Rebook merchandise in order to make room for the chain’s new women’s workout line Calia, with Carrie Underwood as the face of the brand. And now the company is reassuring customers who were apparently worried this meant the store would be dropping the other brands completely. [More]
Dick’s Sporting Goods Ditching Some Adidas Merchandise In Favor Of New Celebrity Line
By 3.3.15
The Adidas section at your local Dick’s Sporting Goods stores might seem a bit smaller soon, as the company has decided to hitch its apple wagon to a celebrity star and turn the spotlight on its new line of women’s workout gear. [More]
12-Year-Old Girl Writes Letter To Dick’s Sporting Goods Explaining That Women Also Play Basketball
By 10.10.14
While it’s all well and good for us adults to stand up for gender equality in kids’ products, there’s something about kids themselves taking retailers to task for not giving both boys and girls a fair shake. Leading the pack of girls who aren’t about to take a boys-only view of the sports world this week is a 12-year-old who was so disappointed in Dick’s Sporting Goods for not featuring women in a recent basketball catalog, she took the company to task in a scathing, informed and otherwise wonderful letter. [More]
Dick’s Sporting Goods Sues Modell’s CEO For Allegedly Posing As Dick’s VP
By 3.3.14
When you think of corporate espionage and snooping, you probably think of big manufacturers — electronics, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, packaged food — trying to learn what the competition is working on. One industry that is unlikely to come to mind is retail sporting goods. [More]
This Is Probably The Worst Cyber Monday Deal Of 2013
By 12.2.13
Retailers with a huge coupon list the exclusions to that coupon when manufacturer deals or other factors keep them from lowering the price too far on a given item. We understand that. What we understand slightly less is why Dick’s Sporting Goods bothers to publish their exclusions at all. [More]
Dick’s Promotes Great Sale That Only Applies To 12 Random Items (Update: Not So Fast)
By 9.26.13 — Updated: 9.27.13
There’s a very prominently featured sale on the website of Dick’s Sporting Goods for the next few days. It’s a pretty good deal: $20 off with a $100 purchase! Only reader Dave couldn’t figure out which items on the site were eligible for this promotion. He sought help from a customer service chat rep and learned the sad truth: only twelve items are part of this promotion. [More]
Dick’s Sporting Goods Sale Makes A Mockery Of The Buy One Get One Free Concept
By 6.13.13 — Updated: 6.14.13
If you don’t have room in your budget for discounted fitness equipment from Dick’s Sporting Goods, maybe you could use a fabric folding chair. Dick’s Sporting Goods has a pretty good deal on chairs bearing their logo, at only $7.50 each if you buy two. The problem, reader Peter points out, is that the “regular” price is $12. [More]
Dick’s Sporting Goods Clearing Out All Livestrong Items For Some Reason
By 6.12.13
What’s that, you say? People just aren’t flocking to athletic equipment endorsed by Lance Armstrong since he admitted that his professional cycling career was full of doping and lies? That makes sense. That’s bad news if you’re Dick’s Sporting Goods, and half of the pricey fitness equipment you sell is Livestrong-branded. It is, however, great news for consumers. [More]
Dick's $10 Off Coupon Good For Most Things, Not The Item You Want
By 6.26.10
Silly Sean, he filled out a survey for Dick’s Sporting Goods because he thought his receipt’s promise of “$10 off your next purchase of $50!” meant that he would get $10 off his next purchase of $50. Nope! [More]
