Big 5 Sporting Goods Dummies

 Idiots at the Tucson Big 5 Sporting goods store run sales and then their
drone clerks cannot even find the proper sizes for footwear.

Near impossible to get assistance and when you do they don't know anything.

Clueless low wage employees; their Managers are also rude or non-
responsive. One good thing about Trashon Arizona is that there are an
abundance of alternative stores. No use beating a dead horse.

One on Speedway is particularily bad, if you have to shop there go to one
on Oracle.

  On 02/01/11 16:19, humbug wrote:


Has it occurred to you that perhaps there's a reason for their lower
(note:  I did not say "low") prices?  I'd hate to hear what you have to
say about WalMart.


Ah.  How clever of you to have figured out that Big 5 isn't the only
sporting goods store in town.


You've shopped at TWO of them?  My, you are a glutton for punishment...

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Cheers, Bev
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It's true that Smokey the Bear deserves praise for his
campaign against forest fires, but nobody ever mentions
the boy scouts he kills for their hats.

 

Maybe one of these family run outfits? Those types generally don't give
a hang if you buy from them or not.

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Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation
2525 E. El Segundo Blvd.
El Segundo, CA 90245
Company Web Site         
Phone: 310-536-0611
Fax: 310-297-7585
 

Big 5 Sporting Goods has outgrown its name. The company, which started
out with five army surplus shops in California in 1955, is a leading
sporting goods retailer with about 385 stores in a dozen mostly Western
states, including California, Washington, and Arizona. The company sells
brand-name (adidas, Coleman, Easton) and private-label equipment,
apparel, and footwear for indoor and outdoor activities such as camping,
hunting, fishing, tennis, golf, and snowboarding. Big 5 has stuck with a
neighborhood-store format (averaging approximately 11,000 square feet)
instead of opening massive superstores. Big 5 Sporting Goods is run by
its chairman and CEO Steven Miller, the son of company co-founder Robert
Miller.  

IPO Information
Date Went Public:   Jun 25, 2002
Filing Date:   Aug 21, 2001

Proposed Offer Price:   $14.00 to $16.00
Actual Offer Price:   $13.00
First Day Open:   $13.01
First Day Close:   $13.17

Shares Offered (mil.):   8.05
Offering Amount (mil.):   $104.70
Post-Offering Shares (mil.):   21.68

Underwriters:  
Credit Suisse First Boston; U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray; Jefferies &
Company, Inc.; Stephens Inc.         Key NumbersCompany Type:  Public

NASDAQ (GS):  BGFV
Fiscal Year-End: December
2009 Sales (mil.): $895.5
1-Year Sales Growth: 3.6%
2009 Net Income (mil.): $21.8
1-Year Net Income Growth: 56.9%
2009 Employees:  8,600
1-Year Employee Growth: (3.4%)


Key People
Chairman, President, and CEO
Steven G. Miller

SVP, CFO, and Treasurer
Barry D. Emerson

SVP Human Resources
Jeffrey L. (Jeff) Fraley


    



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 On 03 Feb 2011, you wrote in misc.consumers.frugal-living:


haha, I've dealt with this company in the past. This Miller guy, who
heads it, doesn't even reply to consumer complaints.

They operate under the shotgun approach. Spam advertise everywhere, then
you don't care if customers come back or not.