Bass Pro purchases Cabelas for 5.5B

[TurbineBlade]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/10/03/bass-pro-shops-cabelas-acquisition/91459212/

Oh, great.  Just great.   What the heck am I supposed to do with my huge Cabelas, fish-busting-out-of-window decals??  That doesn't even touch upon all the hats and underwear.  

Hey, faceless billionaires:  Some of us are too old to forge completely new identities!  

[namfos]

You've heard of White-Out, right?

[namfos]

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/business/dealbook/bass-pro-shops-cabelas.html

Don't worry Gene, you can still get RealTree undies from Bass Pro. All you Cabelas stuff is now a collectors item. They'd probably become prized items for TPFR raffles. ;-)

Mark

[Brian]

personally i think cabela's did a great job with the original TPFR hats!

[D. Walker]

they may keep both brands and BPS would be the parent company. Similar to Giant and Food Lion being owned by the same parent company. Who knows! I am more curious about what they will do where there are locations super close to each other. Such as in Richmond.

Cabelas in RVA (opened this year) is appx 20 Miles from Bass Pro (which opened 2008)  and there is greentop nearby. im sure there are other instances like this in other locations. I wonder how it will shake out.

Also there is a BPS and Cabelas within 20 miles of each other in Raleigh, both opened recently.

[namfos]

About a year ago I wen to the newly opened Cabela's outside  Raleigh, NC. Perhaps they hadn't gotten their act together by then in terms of staffing, training, displays, inventory, but I thought it sucked compared to their other locations. Barely better than going to Dicks ( I miss Galyans).

Mark

On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 4:27:31 PM UTC-4, D. Walker wrote:

...Also there is a BPS and Cabelas within 20 miles of each other in Raleigh, both opened recently.

[ALarge]

This is what I get for buying Cabela's Instinct Accelerator hunting waders last fall...

[TurbineBlade]

Were your instincts quickened? 

Gene

[Alex Large]

Quickened? Perhaps. 

Accelerated? Absolutely. 

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[TurbineBlade]

Lol -- give it up for ALarge.  He's alright! 

On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 1:06:23 PM UTC-4, ALarge wrote:

Quickened? Perhaps. 

Accelerated? Absolutely. 

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:58 PM TurbineBlade <doubl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Were your instincts quickened? 

Gene

On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 10:58:07 AM UTC-4, ALarge wrote:

This is what I get for buying Cabela's Instinct Accelerator hunting waders last fall...

On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 9:17:21 AM UTC-4, namfos wrote:

About a year ago I wen to the newly opened Cabela's outside  Raleigh, NC. Perhaps they hadn't gotten their act together by then in terms of staffing, training, displays, inventory, but I thought it sucked compared to their other locations. Barely better than going to Dicks ( I miss Galyans).

Mark

On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 4:27:31 PM UTC-4, D. Walker wrote:

...Also there is a BPS and Cabelas within 20 miles of each other in Raleigh, both opened recently.

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[Gadsden Merrill]

Wow, I miss Galyans too. I thought everyone but me had forgotten about them...