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Dick's Sporting Goods
Dick's Sporting Goods was founded in 1948 in Binghamton, New York by Richard "Dick" Stack, who reportedly started the business at age 18 with a small bait-and-tackle shop after his grandfather gave him $300 to start a business of his own. The company grew into the largest sporting goods retailer in the United States by revenue, expanding from its original fishing and hunting equipment focus into a full-line sporting goods chain covering team sports, fitness, footwear, and outdoor recreation equipment. Dick's drew significant national attention in 2018 when it voluntarily stopped selling assault-style rifles and raised the minimum age for gun purchases at its stores to 21 following the Parkland, Florida school shooting, a policy decision that drew both praise and criticism from different segments of its customer base. Dick's Sporting Goods's combination of its founder's origin story starting the business as a teenager and its high-profile 2018 firearms policy decision has made it one of the most closely watched sporting goods chains in the country.
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Cabela's
Cabela's was founded in 1961 by brothers Dick and Jim Cabela, who began selling fishing lures via a small mail-order classified ad before growing the business into one of the largest hunting, fishing, and outdoor gear retailers in the country, based in rural Sidney, Nebraska. Like its later parent company Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's built a reputation for massive destination-style retail stores featuring extensive wildlife dioramas and taxidermy displays, drawing customers from far beyond typical retail trade areas specifically to experience the stores themselves. Cabela's was acquired by Bass Pro Shops in 2017 in a deal valued at approximately $4 billion, consolidating two of the largest hunting and outdoor retail brands in the United States, though Cabela's has continued operating its stores under its original distinct branding and identity. Cabela's combination of its origin as a small mail-order fishing lure business in rural Nebraska and its landmark 2017 merger with Bass Pro Shops has made it one of the most historically significant outdoor retail chains in the country.
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