Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO More Interested In Selling Books Than Guns?

Go to article

Posted September 30, 2019 11:38 am by Comments

By Cam Edwards

Ed Stack, the golfing buddy of Michael Bloomberg and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, has a new book coming out next week that’s seems to be a first-hand account of what an amazing job he’s done running the company, including his efforts to remove guns from the inventory of his stores. The book, titled “It’s How We Play The Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference,” was written for three reasons, according to Stack: to help entrepreneurs, highlight what’s happening with youth sports, and to talk about his support for gun control, and using corporations to push an anti-gun agenda.

When Dick’s Sporting Goods pulled large-capacity magazines and rifles from stores in 2018, Stack knew the company would take a hit. In his book, he said about 65 employees “quit right away in protest, and more followed in later weeks.” Sales also dropped in the quarters thereafter, as the company predicted. It actually destroyed about $5 million worth of rifles in inventory to make sure they didn’t get back on the market.

No other major corporation had been so vocal on the topic, nor taken such a bold stance. Dick’s Sporting …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

← The Gun Page home

Copyright 2014-2015 Anomalous Media, LLC All Rights Reserved