{"id":49852,"date":"2016-04-16T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49852"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:50:59","slug":"sport-chalet-were-going-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49852","title":{"rendered":"Sport Chalet! We&#8217;re Going Out of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-49853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sport_chalet-200x133.jpeg\" alt=\"sport_chalet\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sport_chalet-200x133.jpeg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sport_chalet.jpeg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Sport Chalet<\/strong>, SoCal\u00a0moms&#8217; favorite action sporting,\u00a0big box chain store, is calling it quits after 57 years in business. But they&#8217;re not going to try and restructure like <strong>PacSun<\/strong>, or <strong>Quiksilver<\/strong>. No, they&#8217;ve turned off their online store and are shutting down each and every one of their 47\u00a0locations, according to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-sport-chalet-closing-20160416-story.html\"><em><strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chain has 40 stores in California, mainly in the Southland, according to the website. It also operates five stores in Arizona and two in Las Vegas. The company didn\u2019t say how many people would be losing their jobs, but as of March 30, 2014, the chain employed 1,200 full-time workers and 1,600 part-timers. . .\u00a0At the Sport Chalet in downtown Los Angeles, the signs in windows of the black-and-white facade told of the chain\u2019s fate. \u201cEverything must go,\u201d they stated. \u201cAll Sales are Final No Returns.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The chain reportedly hadn&#8217;t made a profit since 2007 and was apparently $52 million in debt when it was sold in 2014 for $17 million. Blame <strong>Target<\/strong> and those dastardly online discounters.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, if you&#8217;re\u00a0looking for cheap\u00a0camping gear for a summer road trip, you should definitely\u00a0look elsewhere. There are no deals at Sport Chalet. According to one store employee, &#8220;The liquidation company came in and took over the pricing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have no control over anything&#8221;\u00a0Meaning, most everything in the store is now more expensive than it was before the closing announcement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-sport-chalet-closing-20160416-story.html\">LA Times<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport Chalet, SoCal\u00a0moms&#8217; favorite action sporting,\u00a0big box chain store, is calling it quits after 57 years in business. But they&#8217;re not going to try and restructure like PacSun, or Quiksilver. No, they&#8217;ve turned off their online store and are shutting down each and every one of their 47\u00a0locations, according to a story in the Los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49871,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49852\/revisions\/49871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}