I visited Cabelas last night to look at a several items I intended to buy elsewhere for waaay less! Upon entering the store I was greeted with credit card papers which pisses me off to no end so that's one reason I stay away. I wanted to look at some cold weather camo and everything I had looked at last year was definitely a different material this year. I found it odd right at the BP takeover all the camo was removed in the whole store and only recently replaced last month and we are now in month 3 of Ohio's hunting seasons. I went over to the bino counter and the gentlemen was very helpful and knew his stuff. It came time to walk out with an item they agreed to price match and I was asked about the credit card. I now reply I have the card and its great even though I don't. The man replied "great! Thank you very much, we appreciate that and that's pretty much the only think keeping us in a job". I have no clue what that meant other than several years ago I was told by an employee Cabelas finances their own credit card. Ammo is very high compared to other places, guns are very high even with the black Friday sales and I don't think I've ever seen so much novelty crap in my life!!! I swear 60% of the store is now hoodies, t shirts, hats and gift crap! 10yrs ago if you said Cabelas to me I thought taxidermy mountain, camo, guns and bows. Archery used to have a ton of Bear bows and various crossbows and now its all redhead crap! Archery tech said they made him take them all down and put in the back room.
P.S. I purchased a Savage Mark II FV today on sale for $150. Cabelas sale price is $199. About 3 local shops had the Mark II in all variations for $150 this week so cabelas having more $ and pull could sell them at that price but they must want to be greedy. I drove 40min to purchase one for $150.
Cabela's USED to finance their own card. As part of the deal when being acquired by Bass Pro they had to give that up.