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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 439850" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>The big problem is that many of the stores HAVE stocked GT gear in the past. When it didn't sell, they stopped. In my local Walmart, when they have season DVDs of the mutts, they sell several boxes in a few days. They couldn't sell 1 box of a big bowl win in the biggest GT year of the last decade.(And as I said earlier in this thread, that half a box is still on the shelf waiting to be sold.) I don't believe at all that a Target or Walmart manager will allow his team loyalties to interfere with his store's income. Add to that the fact that depending on where you are around Atlanta you will see mutt gear along with: Alabama gear, Auburn gear, Tennessee gear, and Clemson gear. If their only factor in deciding which gear to carry was their team preference, you wouldn't see the mix of gear depending on what side of Atlanta you are on.</p><p></p><p>In 2014 my closest Academy Sports had a larger collection of GT gear including polos, dress shirts, hats, etc. A friend of mine purchased a couple of shirts on the way to the ACC Championship game. Much of that gear was on the discount rack in Feb of 2015. Even if the manager of that store is a big GT fan, putting a lot of gear on the discount rack during/after the best season in recent history is a very difficult problem to overcome.</p><p></p><p>If GT fans buy the GT gear as soon as it hits the shelves, and then order gear in store when it sells out, then the store managers will take notice. If a very few, as compared to overall store patrons, complain on GT message boards that their local store doesn't have enough gear they will not care or even know that an extremely small percentage of their customers are complaining. If fans want their local Hibbett or Academy to carry GT gear, then buy all of the GT gear as soon as it is in the store or order GT gear in store as soon as it is on the website. Fans need to prove merchandise will currently move, because history shows pretty clearly that it will not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 439850, member: 2426"] The big problem is that many of the stores HAVE stocked GT gear in the past. When it didn't sell, they stopped. In my local Walmart, when they have season DVDs of the mutts, they sell several boxes in a few days. They couldn't sell 1 box of a big bowl win in the biggest GT year of the last decade.(And as I said earlier in this thread, that half a box is still on the shelf waiting to be sold.) I don't believe at all that a Target or Walmart manager will allow his team loyalties to interfere with his store's income. Add to that the fact that depending on where you are around Atlanta you will see mutt gear along with: Alabama gear, Auburn gear, Tennessee gear, and Clemson gear. If their only factor in deciding which gear to carry was their team preference, you wouldn't see the mix of gear depending on what side of Atlanta you are on. In 2014 my closest Academy Sports had a larger collection of GT gear including polos, dress shirts, hats, etc. A friend of mine purchased a couple of shirts on the way to the ACC Championship game. Much of that gear was on the discount rack in Feb of 2015. Even if the manager of that store is a big GT fan, putting a lot of gear on the discount rack during/after the best season in recent history is a very difficult problem to overcome. If GT fans buy the GT gear as soon as it hits the shelves, and then order gear in store when it sells out, then the store managers will take notice. If a very few, as compared to overall store patrons, complain on GT message boards that their local store doesn't have enough gear they will not care or even know that an extremely small percentage of their customers are complaining. If fans want their local Hibbett or Academy to carry GT gear, then buy all of the GT gear as soon as it is in the store or order GT gear in store as soon as it is on the website. Fans need to prove merchandise will currently move, because history shows pretty clearly that it will not. [/QUOTE]
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