Sometimes I can't walk from one room to the other and remember what I went into the room for. But one thing that I WILL REMEMBER is the local sporting goods and their jacked up prices.
I went into the store yesterday mainly just to look around because it has been since March that I had been there. I thought I might pick up some CCI 450 primers if they had any. Only primers that they had were Federal large rifle mag and they wanted $60 a thousand. Went to look at the powder and they had a pretty good amount like they did back in March priced in the upper twenty to low thirty dollar range, BUT, they had it priced $40 to $60 a pound depending on flavor. Now I could understand this IF they had to pay a higher price from their distributor and then passed on the cost to their customer. BUT, it was the SAME POWDER they had back in March. You could see where they had put new price stickers over top of the old one. Went over to the bullets which were not as well stocked but they had doubled the price and again just put a new price sticker over the old ones. Same thing with ammo. Off brand "remanufactured" 9mm 115 FMJ that had been $9 a box now was $20.
They have lost my business FOREVER. Rant over for now :x
I went into the store yesterday mainly just to look around because it has been since March that I had been there. I thought I might pick up some CCI 450 primers if they had any. Only primers that they had were Federal large rifle mag and they wanted $60 a thousand. Went to look at the powder and they had a pretty good amount like they did back in March priced in the upper twenty to low thirty dollar range, BUT, they had it priced $40 to $60 a pound depending on flavor. Now I could understand this IF they had to pay a higher price from their distributor and then passed on the cost to their customer. BUT, it was the SAME POWDER they had back in March. You could see where they had put new price stickers over top of the old one. Went over to the bullets which were not as well stocked but they had doubled the price and again just put a new price sticker over the old ones. Same thing with ammo. Off brand "remanufactured" 9mm 115 FMJ that had been $9 a box now was $20.
They have lost my business FOREVER. Rant over for now :x