Don't care if anyone boycotts or not (probably makes sense to me), but a couple of points of clarification are in order:
1. There is absolutely nothing different about the new card / points system at all. The only change is that they are going from Visa to MC. All points carry over, etc. The only difference is that BPS will now also have Cabela's excellent & rather generous points system (up side), and that if you shop at CostCo, you won't get any points, because Costco doesn't take anything but Visa (the one big down side). Bass Pro is forcing many of *their* M.O. upon Cabela's, but this is one area where they were smart enough to recognize that Cabela's card / point system was much better than Bass Pro's was.
2. The "empty shelves / empty cases" thing: that is a store thing only (not company wide), and there is no excuse for that. That is a point to complain to *that* store's general manager, who is responsible for using all available space to offer products (there are absolutely no shortage of products).
3. The corollary of that is that it absolutely *is* a BPS corporate thing when all shelves & displays are chock full, but there is simply less selection than before because of the "squeeze" put onto floor and gondo space due to the massive amounts of clothing and such. This is unfortunately a real thing that is actually happening. Complain to BPS corporate on this one.
4. BPS did indeed eliminate military discount at Cabela's, but ONLY for gun and gun-related items (scopes, ammo, etc). You still get the same military discount as before on everything else in the store (archery, hunting, camping, shoes, clothes, gifts, boating, etc). So it's unfair to say they eliminated the discount altogether - they didn't. To me, it makes sense on the guns themselves (lower margin item), but eliminating the discount on scopes etc. does not make any sense.
5. The trigger lock on everything rule is absurd indeed - please complain to BPS headquarters. However, they can and will do two things for you to mitigate the pain of this BPS nonsense: (a) they will take the trigger lock off of a gun behind the counter to do such things as check holster fit for one of their holsters for sale, to a gun that you brought in or is in their display, and to insert the separated bolt on a new turnbolt in those models which require trigger pull to do so (Wby etc) so that you can check bolt travel smoothness etc. - but they will always put the lock back on before handing the gun back to you; and (b) if you buy a gun and simply do not like the trigger pull, they WILL happily accept a return for refund for that reason, as an exception to their general rule.
6. On the upside, many locations do still have a pretty darned decent selection of both guns and ammo.... and they do at least try to (and in most cases do) give excellent customer service - which may justify paying a little more in some cases.... one example of this is the fact that they still do $25 transfers from an FFL you bought a gun from like Buds or whatever (i.e. an intermediary transfer) - this is much lower than many places. They will also mount and bore sight - in a reasonably competent manner (depending upon location) - your scope, whether you bought just the rifle, or just the scope or even just the base or rings only - and if they're not busy, they'll probably mount and bore sight you even if you bought everything somewhere else.