After a short/rainy RSO duty day, I took the drive out to the local/new Cabelas on the way home. I had intended to do nothing more than pick up a few plastic 357 ammo boxes for reloads -- and maybe look at any new toys that might drag me over to look.
Instead I found the reloading/component/equip section to have been reduced into an area 1/2 the size of just 10 days ago, few ammo boxes remained (none 357), and all of the ammunition/component/supply shelves now crowded into maybe 1/3 the former area.
I happened to look for the primers area (short-stocked for months now) and instead found nothing... cobwebs.
So a young/very pleasant staffer came by and I asked where the primers were. "We're out of stock" was his reply. So I asked "when will you get your next shipment in?"
Again very pleasant... he couldn't say... that BassPro's business model was that the clothing line had a higher profit margin... and reloading/ammunition re-supply would largely go static until the new model was stabilized... that BassPro's accountants
SO CABELAS... IF this is your new business model; and IF you/your corporate staff are reading/following these threads.... follow Edward Demmings first rule of total quality management as told to me by the great man Himself now 28 years ago:
"Don't do anything stupid...."
and instead, rethink this model.
.
Instead I found the reloading/component/equip section to have been reduced into an area 1/2 the size of just 10 days ago, few ammo boxes remained (none 357), and all of the ammunition/component/supply shelves now crowded into maybe 1/3 the former area.
I happened to look for the primers area (short-stocked for months now) and instead found nothing... cobwebs.
So a young/very pleasant staffer came by and I asked where the primers were. "We're out of stock" was his reply. So I asked "when will you get your next shipment in?"
Again very pleasant... he couldn't say... that BassPro's business model was that the clothing line had a higher profit margin... and reloading/ammunition re-supply would largely go static until the new model was stabilized... that BassPro's accountants
SO CABELAS... IF this is your new business model; and IF you/your corporate staff are reading/following these threads.... follow Edward Demmings first rule of total quality management as told to me by the great man Himself now 28 years ago:
"Don't do anything stupid...."
and instead, rethink this model.
.
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