Topgun
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Just got to thinking this Christmas morn after reading all the ads in the newspaper. It looks like the sales are hurting in stores.
Looking at the ads made me think of when I was younger. LOTS of stores sold guns. Long guns AND handguns. It made shopping more fun as there were guns to be looked at.
Although I never was a fan of J.C. Higgins, I usually ended up buying ....something....in the gun dept. of Sears (soon to be broke) when shopping with parents or wife.
I just wonder how much sales have been hurt by the "feminizing" of the stores and "political correctness."
Kinda makes me want to ask at stores I visit, "Where's the gun department?" I know I'll get the answer, "We don't have one." So my logical next question should be, "Why not?" And if the clerk doesn't know, then ask for a manager and ask them.
If enough people asked, SOMEONE might mention it in one of the slave meetings that these big boxes have from time to time.
Or a short phone call. "Do you sell guns? No? Oh, thank you, I'll keep looking."
Possibly better than writing legislators.
It can't be beyond some sharp cookie in UPPER management to wonder why GUN SHOPS are so busy. And why the decline in "MALE" shoppers.
I know Walmart (ugh) handles some gun stuff but not handguns. Maybe it's time some OTHER stores started thinking about how to stop the incursion of Walmart (ugh) and start not only competing but BESTING Walmart (ugh) by handling all sorts of firearms.
Might work.
Looking at the ads made me think of when I was younger. LOTS of stores sold guns. Long guns AND handguns. It made shopping more fun as there were guns to be looked at.
Although I never was a fan of J.C. Higgins, I usually ended up buying ....something....in the gun dept. of Sears (soon to be broke) when shopping with parents or wife.
I just wonder how much sales have been hurt by the "feminizing" of the stores and "political correctness."
Kinda makes me want to ask at stores I visit, "Where's the gun department?" I know I'll get the answer, "We don't have one." So my logical next question should be, "Why not?" And if the clerk doesn't know, then ask for a manager and ask them.
If enough people asked, SOMEONE might mention it in one of the slave meetings that these big boxes have from time to time.
Or a short phone call. "Do you sell guns? No? Oh, thank you, I'll keep looking."
Possibly better than writing legislators.
It can't be beyond some sharp cookie in UPPER management to wonder why GUN SHOPS are so busy. And why the decline in "MALE" shoppers.
I know Walmart (ugh) handles some gun stuff but not handguns. Maybe it's time some OTHER stores started thinking about how to stop the incursion of Walmart (ugh) and start not only competing but BESTING Walmart (ugh) by handling all sorts of firearms.
Might work.