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Reply to "Gander Mountain filing bankruptcy"

If the story you are alluding to doesn't sink the local Gander Mountain store then the opening of Academy Sports surely will.  I've just been in the Madison, Alabama, Academy Sports store but there is no way that the local Gander Mountain (and DI(c)K's sporting goods store) will make it with their current prices.     

From all appearances it appears that Gander Mountain sports gets less business than the store in the Target shopping complex but I just wonder how much longer that store will be in business in the local area what with the increased competition and what has to be increased rent they will be paying when they have to resign their lease given that according to many that's why Best Buy decided not to renew.   Most said that the Florence Best Buy store did good business or at least enough to support it's existence here but that the Company wasn't willing to handle the greatly increased rent/lease amount that the owners of the shopping center wanted from them.   

In the end you hear a lot of things but it doesn't take too much wondering to see that there are problems on the horizon for Gander Mountain if the local store is any indication.  They do have a great selection of firearms and ammo but their prices aren't the best and often are beat by other local vendors.  I still hate to see something happen to a large business like Gander Mountain or Sears for that matter.  As for Sear's though I felt that their days was numbered long before the local store started closing at 6PM rather than 9PM, I felt their days was numbered when Sear's was bought out by the person that owned and purchased K-Mart.

Last edited by gbrk

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