Comments on: Sportsman's Warehouse Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

By: Greg Graham

Greg Graham — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:09:59 +0000

It is far too bad that the financial state of this country has crippled such a wonderful chain of stores such as Sportsmans Warehouse. The store in my community (Wenatchee, Wa.) is a superbly managed store and the hunting/gun department has the most professional and well informed staff that I have ever encountered and all store employees are exceedingly polite. The display of guns and ammo far exceed all other stores combined, in my community. I am confident that the upper management of Sportmans Warehouse will re-organize and pull through the present recession and again become the successful chain that my towns store presently is.

By: Dwight Larson

Dwight Larson — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:56:23 +0000

This is too bad – they were nice stores, with a lot of good inventory.

I understand why they are having trouble, despite the recent boom in gun sales: I think they expanded too quickly, and I also think they didn’t promote the new stores very well. The firearm sales staff was not particularly impressive, at least the few I spoke with.

To top it all off, I think they did actually have some supply-chain issues during the time they were trying to work out their sale to the Canadian cooperative, crippling their ability to capitalize on the recent surge in demand for ammo, guns, and reloading supplies.