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Academy more expensive than Cabela's? #8591176 05/04/22 10:12 PM
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Academy Price

Cabela's Price


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Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Texas Dan] #8591182 05/04/22 10:18 PM
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I’ve said this the last couple of years about academy. You have to shop them now. Always had the lowest prices for years but that’s no longer the case.

Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Texas Dan] #8591192 05/04/22 10:25 PM
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You're talking a $30 difference. Not really a significant difference on a $1600 rifle.

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Originally Posted by jhenderson
I’ve said this the last couple of years about academy. You have to shop them now. Always had the lowest prices for years but that’s no longer the case.


It was inevitable once ownership changed from private to corporate hands.


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Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Texas Dan] #8591238 05/04/22 11:19 PM
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I think Cabelas has had some incorrect prices lately. I got a pistol recently for a really good price, like the best price on the internet. Next day the price jumped by $200 to what most are selling it for. I think it was an incorrect price that they ended up honoring.

Im pretty sure Academy will price match if you talk to a manager.

Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Texas Dan] #8591246 05/04/22 11:22 PM
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This says Academy is 5% cheaper than Cabelas:

Academy price match guarantee

Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Texas Dan] #8591261 05/04/22 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Texas Dan
Originally Posted by jhenderson
I’ve said this the last couple of years about academy. You have to shop them now. Always had the lowest prices for years but that’s no longer the case.


It was inevitable once ownership changed from private to corporate hands.


Supply chain issues are forcing more people to abide by map pricing.

Technically the mfg sets the price, the retailers normally follows and then ask for margin support or “ on sale” ability on slow moving items. Academy’s also doesnt traditionally carry the higher tier lines or colors of certain Mfg’ers like Nike, Columbia, UA, etc

When you see an add “pricing” Memorial Day special, or Blk Friday, The retailer normally didn’t set that pricing, mfg did.

KKR is actually done a good job raising the brand tier levels while increase the brand strength. They have doubled their IPO price in two years, even at that I think they are under valued

Hat tip to KKR.


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Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Adchunts] #8591265 05/04/22 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Adchunts
This says Academy is 5% cheaper than Cabelas:

Academy price match guarantee


The only good thing about the Morris brand vs KKR is Morris does give Veteran discounts where I don’t think KKR does


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Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Texas Dan] #8591280 05/05/22 12:00 AM
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It's an in stock item vs an out of stock item as well. Cabelas can leave the old price online forever, and only change it when they get the item back in stock. Not uncommon.

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Originally Posted by Tim9880
It's an in stock item vs an out of stock item as well. Cabelas can leave the old price online forever, and only change it when they get the item back in stock. Not uncommon.


I believe both items are "ship to store" only, which I assume means they exist in each company's warehouse. Both websites often show firearms that are not available at that time. You just have to keep checking back to see when the order links have become active. I take this to mean they now have it in the warehouse and will ship to the store of your choice once you order and pay for it.

It's worth searching both Academy and Cabela's websites from time to time to see what they have available for online order with ship to store. They're often models you'll never see on store shelves. It was some time ago that I purchased a NIB, old stock Winchester Model 94 from Academy. No one would have ever known it was even available without doing a search for a Winchester Model 94. It must have been a rare case where the company got access to some new, old stock rifles and offered them for online order only. I honestly didn't believe it would show up at the store until they called me a few days later to tell me it was ready for pickup.

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The academy rifle is 6.5 gaymoor and the cabelas rifle is 30-06. Maybe it’s worth $30 to some folks to shoot the hip new round.


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Links provided are an apples to oranges comparison.


Pass the gravy.


Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Gringo Bling] #8591580 05/05/22 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Gringo Bling
You're talking a $30 difference. Not really a significant difference on a $1600 rifle.

Exactly, if those prices make your decision, you're looking at the wrong rifle anyway.

Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Texas Dan] #8592195 05/06/22 01:59 AM
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Bought a box of ammo for 52.99 at scheels and saw it two days later at academy for 61.99. It’s not what it used to be. They have great clearances still luckily once or twice a year

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Originally Posted by Texas Dan
Originally Posted by jhenderson
I’ve said this the last couple of years about academy. You have to shop them now. Always had the lowest prices for years but that’s no longer the case.


It was inevitable once ownership changed from private to corporate hands.


Bingo. When I worked at corporate, I heard a story once that Gochman chewed out a buying office for "screwing the customer" for getting too much margin on a product and demanded the price be lowered.

Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: thedoveshooter] #8593945 05/08/22 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Texas Dan
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I’ve said this the last couple of years about academy. You have to shop them now. Always had the lowest prices for years but that’s no longer the case.


It was inevitable once ownership changed from private to corporate hands.


Bingo. When I worked at corporate, I heard a story once that Gochman chewed out a buying office for "screwing the customer" for getting too much margin on a product and demanded the price be lowered.


Their highest margins are the Magellan line, created well before KKR. So I doubt that he actually chewed on someone unless they got margin support from the MFG on slow moving, late shipment etc and didn’t discount it to push turn over, which would make business sense.

I don’t think people realize how involved the mfg is in retail pricing, and how it’s policed

Biggest change is normally product lines with a company gets boughtout. Tier levels normally go up or down depending on price point they are chasing






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Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: Texas Dan] #8593960 05/08/22 10:08 PM
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Academy may very well be higher than Cabelas for ammo. However I don't have a Cabelas within 300 miles of me and Academy is 10 miles away. I doubt the price difference would equal shipping costs.


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I feel like the Cabelas Ft Worth store is on the verge of petering out

About once a month I stop in

And the last 3-4 times I stopped in, there’s hardly anybody there.

As in less than 10 cars in the customer parking area

Idk what the deal is. Place used to be packed

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Originally Posted by procraft05
I feel like the Cabelas Ft Worth store is on the verge of petering out

About once a month I stop in

And the last 3-4 times I stopped in, there’s hardly anybody there.

As in less than 10 cars in the customer parking area

Idk what the deal is. Place used to be packed

You can thank JB.



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Allen Cabelas looks like it’s going to peter out too.



Re: Academy more expensive than Cabela's? [Re: GusWayne] #8593988 05/08/22 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by procraft05
I feel like the Cabelas Ft Worth store is on the verge of petering out

About once a month I stop in

And the last 3-4 times I stopped in, there’s hardly anybody there.

As in less than 10 cars in the customer parking area

Idk what the deal is. Place used to be packed


They basically fired the cabelas buyers and just used BP’’s . BP’s has more of a sporting out wear mentality like Dicks and Academy. I think that’s a huge mistake


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Good article on it. Hedge fund basically forced Cabela’s to sell once they acquired 11% of the stock.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/paul-singer-sidney-nebraska-cabelas-bass-pro-shops-merger



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I have pretty much quit Cabelas. I couldn’t quit BP because I never bought from them anyway.
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Hate to see Cabella's go under. I remember ordering their catalog from the back of Field & Stream as a teen in the early 70's.


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Was at Academy in Odessa and they had a nice Horizen or other semi high end bolt gun under glass. Thought that was kinda like air freshener in a out house scenario for this area. If I was going to buy that type rifle thats not where I would shop for it. They have decent over the counter firearms but that just didn't fit these demographics. Bought some $7 t-shirts for work instead.


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