The Dick’s-Foot Locker acquisition is raising antitrust concerns. Are they warranted?

The early summer sales season is becoming its own retail holiday of sorts. Why are brands buying in?

Foot Locker is set to close over 100 stores by the end of the year.

Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods fell about 15% on Thursday on news of its blockbuster deal to acquire Foot Locker. Do you see more potential benefits than risks in Dick’s Sporting Goods acquiring Foot Locker?

A merger of Dick’s Sporting Goods and Foot Locker could happen before the end of the year.

Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods fell 5.8% Tuesday after the sporting goods chain guided profits below Wall Street analysts for the current year. Do you see more headwinds than tailwinds behind the retailer’s performance in 2025?

Dick’s Sporting Goods is expecting soft profits in 2025.

Dick’s Sporting Goods is expanding its influencer program, previously only available to employees, to the consuming public. Do you see more benefits than risks?

An NFL legend tackles holiday shopping in a hilarious new commercial for DICK’s Sporting Goods.

On Dick’s Sporting Goods’ first-quarter analyst call, Lauren Hobart, president and CEO, called out four strategic pillars driving continued market share gains. Who is Dick’s taking share from?

The average store size in the U.S. is the smallest it’s been in at least 17 years. What factors are driving this shift?

After owning outdoor retailer Moosejaw for about seven months, Dick’s Sporting Goods has decided to shut down 11 out of 14…

Dick’s Sporting Goods has reported a 23% decline in quarterly net profits, attributing a significant part of the decline to high…

Each chain’s progress also reflects internal transformation efforts set before the pandemic.

Dick’s Sporting Goods is acquiring Moosejaw from Walmart. The sporting goods giant made the deal to advance its ambitions in the multibillion-dollar outdoor retail market. How do you expect Dick’s to manage the Moosejaw business?

When many retailers nationwide were forced to operate as e-commerce-only companies in March of 2020 due to pandemic-related lockdowns, Shawn Wilkinson, e-commerce program manager for personalization at Dick’s Sporting Goods, saw an opportunity target the right “athlete”. Do you agree with Mr. Wilkinson that bite-sized content tests are a good way to pursue customization and personalization?

Joining a number of other retailers with in-house investment vehicles, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced the launch of DSG Ventures, a $50 million fund that will initially focus on companies that directly serve athletes and their communities, or that help Dick’s better serve its customers. What should Dick’s Sporting Goods hope to gain from its launch of DSG Ventures?

Allbirds, the environmentally-friendly footwear upstart, has opened third-party distribution for the first time. Do you see more benefits than risks in Allbirds’ move to open up wholesale distribution?

Dick’s Sporting Goods is piloting an in-store buy-back program for select outdoor hard and soft goods. The program is being done in partnership with Out&Back Outdoor, a re-seller founded in late 2019. Does a resale program make sense for Dick’s Sporting Goods?

Dick’s Sporting Goods and Nike announced yesterday that the two companies are looking to deepen their relationship that will offer customers of both companies a connection to exclusive offers and loyalty benefits via Dick’s mobile app. What will Dick’s and Nike’s connected partnership mean for each company and their customers?

Dick’s Sporting Goods has been named as the Official Sporting Goods Retail Partner of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) beginning in 2021.  What will Dick’s deal with the WNBA mean for the sporting goods chain along with its other female-focused initiatives?

It’s only one store, but Dick’s Sporting Goods sees big things ahead for its new Public Lands concept, which will celebrate its grand opening on Sept. 24 in Pennsylvania. Do you see the Public Lands concept as in-tune with the needs of consumers in the outdoors lifestyle market?

Dick’s Sporting Goods says it achieved significantly higher profitability in the second quarter in its e-commerce channel through fewer and more targeted promotions, better leverage of fixed costs and strong customer adoption of curbside and in-store pickup. What are the obvious and less obvious levers that drive e-commerce profitability for retailers?

Domino’s, which once had been known for its 30-minute home delivery guarantee, launched a new promise of curbside pickup availability within two minutes of arrival.  Should time guarantees be made around curbside or in-store pickup?

During the first quarter, over 90 percent of Dick’s Sporting Goods’ curbside orders were ready within 15 minutes, according to the company. Upon checking in at the store, half were delivered to the customer’s car in under 2.5 minutes. What expectations for turnaround times on curbside/in-store pickup should retailers set for in-store workers and customers?

Mother’s Day campaigns tend to go for sentimental messages of love and gratitude — only rarely are they daring or subversive. That makes them hard to make memorable.  Which of the three commercials shown in the article do you think is most effective?

Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced the grand opening of its House of Sport experiential concept store. The new store will provide a variety of experiences for various sports both inside and outside the store. Is Dick’s on the right track with its experiential store concepts?

Amazon.com was considering opening a clearance concept selling unsold inventory of home goods and electronics at steep discounts prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic, reports Bloomberg.  What do you think was behind Amazon’s exploration of clearance stores and will they still make sense post-pandemic?

The mantra is to beat last year’s numbers, but the pandemic has distorted sales comparisons. Now a few retailers on fourth-quarter investor calls are encouraging analysts to compare 2021’s figures to 2019’s. What challenges do 2020’s abnormal comparisons present to retailers or brands in 2021 as they do their forward planning?

Dick’s Sporting Goods had a record-setting year in 2020 and its stats were impressive.  Where do you see opportunities for Dick’s Sporting Goods to build on its momentum from 2020 and where do you see challenges that could upset its forward push?

Once Lauren Hobart’s pending promotion to Dick’s Sporting Goods’ CEO takes effect at the close of the retail year, 10 of Fortune 500’s 41 female CEOs will be from retailers, according to The Wall Street Journal. What is driving the success retailers are finding versus other industries in promoting women to CEO roles?

Dick’s Sporting Goods plans to test a new outdoors concept, called Public Lands, in 2021 as scores of Americans’ have embraced outdoor activities during the pandemic. Is now a ripe time for Dick’s to launch an outdoors-themed concept?

The two 30-second commercials being presented today are quite clear in their messaging about addressing the realities associated with the pandemic.  Which does a better job of connecting with each company’s core customers while reaching out to new shoppers?

Dick’s Sporting Goods announced last week the opening of two clearance concepts — OVERTIME by Dick’s Sporting Goods that will be open “for the foreseeable future” and Dick’s Sporting Goods Warehouse that will open only for the next six months. What do think is behind Dick’s Sporting Goods’ introduction of clearance stores?

With scores of retailers introducing curbside pickup and continuing to offer it as stores reopen, more consumers are getting accustomed to the convenience of the service overall. Has curbside pickup become a bigger opportunity amid the pandemic or do you see it as a temporary solution for most retailers?

Citing force majeure, several companies intend to temporarily stop paying rent due to store closures forced by shelter-at-home policies. Are threats to stop paying rent amid the COVID-19 pandemic an excessive risk for retailers?

What a few weeks ago were perks that were growing in popularity have quickly become the only way many brick-and-mortar retailers and restaurants can do business. Will retailers and restaurants that have moved to curbside pickup and delivery-only be able to effectively weather the coronavirus pandemic?

Dick’s Sporting Goods, which earned national headlines in February 2018 for its decision to end sales of assault rifles, last week announced plans to remove the hunting department from another 440 doors. Does Dick’s make a solid business case for getting out of the hunting category?

Dick’s Sporting Goods became the latest retailer to tell Wall Street it will move away from reporting online metrics. Are online growth and/or penetration metrics becoming irrelevant with increasing omnIchannel behavior by consumers?

Dick’s Sporting Goods is crediting its recent performance improvements, in part, to increased investments in employees, including the launch of an associate training program earlier this year and a heightened focus on employee recognition. Is retail any better or worse than other industries at recognizing strong performance by employees?

Walmart will, as a precaution, discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition, once the company has fulfilled its current obligations with suppliers. Do you think retailers are compelled to take steps to mitigate gun violence because of the failure of political leaders to do so?

Macy’s has a new merchandising tale to tell, bringing brands and products connected to the outdoors inside the chain’s STORY experiential retail store-within-a-store. Do you subscribe to Rachel Schechtman’s “collaboration is the new competition” philosophy?

Dick’s wants the ability to create and control solutions that meet its specific business needs and place itself into a position of competitive advantage over rivals. Do you approve of the decision by Dick’s to bring its software development in-house rather than rely on solutions from third-party vendors?

In sessions at the NRF show in New York this week, brands explored the payback from taking stances on hot-button political and societal issues. Has it become more beneficial for brands to take stands on societal and political issues?

Can a commercial with just over 100 views on YouTube beat another that pulls at the heart strings and has been played over three million times on the social media channel? What is your critique of Big Lot’s “Stock Up On Joy!” and Dick’s Sporting Goods’ “The Table”?

Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced that it will no longer sell the AR-15 rifle and similar firearms after the recent murder of 17 students and teachers at a high school in Parkland, FL. Given the current political climate surrounding gun control, what do you think is the best business response from retailers that sell firearms?

Dick’s Sporting Goods has a price perception problem and the retailer plans to take competition head on with more promotions “to drive market share.” Will increased promotional activity and price matching help Dick’s to overcome the consumer perception that its prices are not competitive?

Amazon.com isn’t the only online rival that Dick’s plans to match with its new “best price guarantee,” but it is among the most important in the sporting goods chain’s efforts to maintain its lead in the category. Where do you think Dick’s will see the most competitive pressure going forward?

Believing lease costs are heading south, Dick’s Sporting Goods earlier this week said it was “significantly” reducing new store openings in the years ahead. How should retailers alter their real estate strategies to adjust to rampant store closings in the near and long term?

Ed Stack, CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, announced that the company has established “a new merchandising and vendor matrix.” In the end, implementation of the plan will mean up to 20 percent of the chain’s vendors will be cut before the end of the year. Is Dick’s decision to eliminate vendors the right move based on the changing nature of the sporting goods market?