You guys are on tff.com, so I can't help but assume you have the internet. The store front is just that, the front of their business. I sincerely doubt they give a carp about the half dozen guys that really like X bait and Y rods. They are there to efficiently stock overhead to produce numbers. If you don't get that then I'm sorry but you don't deserve to waste oxygen talking about it all. They have a website, and you can order any of the stuff they as a company stock, so to compare it to tackle warehouse and say "oh I'll just order from tacklewarehouse" when you don't bother to go to academy.com but hate that the store nearest to you doesn't stock stuff they obviously weren't selling.... is completely beyond me.


No amount of talking to managers will change anything. It's a business. They stock what makes sense. They know what gets stocked, bought, and sold. They also track all of it. It's called market research/analysis. So maybe if you went to academy.com and ordered it to your zipcode enough, you'd start seeing it in stores, but obviously they aren't selling it enough currently. If you live in an area where they don't sell a lot of high end rods/reels and baits and they just sit on the shelf till they slash prices and give them away, that usually means they won't keep carrying that item. Which part of that do you look at objectively and wag a finger at academy for bad business? Sure, it'd be awesome if they decided screw it, we are so big and profitable we will just run a massive fishing department with every item ever and love money on it daily... but you can't expect them to do that.




Seriously, use your brain a little and try to comprehend the world around you people... I am not a highly educated rocket surgeon, and I understand these things.

I don't agree at all. You have that that attitude of "I'll just buy what they want me too" and that is poor. Ever heard "squeaky wheel gets the grease"? Well, speak up or shut up. If you are happy with the way things are, I'm sure there is a political party that will love you.

They want to help you. Go help them help you, since you're such a proactive part of the solution and I am just such a feeble man letting the world passively happen around me, which is obviously indicative of political choices I would make as well. The saddest part is, I bet I am many years your junior and vastly more mature in my views of the world, my place, and the impact I have on it. But hey, why solve anything when I could just hop on the internet and complain about life, even the parts of it that are working as they rightly should.

And your maturity is showing. LOL Just follow along with the rest of the sheeple.

Why don't you quit making wild accusations and personal attacks over the internet and find something remotely intelligent or constructive to say before you find yourself in a time out? I've tried to play nice with you but I've about had it. I posted a screen shot of the feedback surveys on academy.com that pop up to show you where you can take your sorry comments if you think you're such a big part of the solution crying on TFF.com like a teenage girl in her diary. Go on and tell them how to improve their business. I am certain they would love your feedback. That's what the survey says anyways...

I just don't think any sane and rational man, using logic and reason, can look at academy.com and go, "man, screw these guys and their limited selection of junk, I'm going to go get on TFF and put them on blast!"

As for local stores... they probably generate more revenue in under armor alone every year than all of us combined on TFF generate in fishing tackle. Supply and demand. This isn't some wild government conspiracy, they aren't keeping you down... no one cares about your political views or opinions of theirs. This is business, plain and simple. If you don't like what they have for sale, don't but it and find someone who has stuff you want to buy, or go open "Chuchu Sports and Outdoors" and sell whatever products you love. The fact of the matter is you sound like an idiot attacking a company for not stocking a store the way you, one single person, want it stocked.

I love Andy Capps "Hot Fries".... you can get them in a lot of vending machines, but not most stores nowadays... and Sixlets candies, popular when I was a kid but not now... I think they're better than M&M's but M&M's won the candy coated chocolate wars I suppose... long story short, if I want products that I seem to be part of the few people who seem to want them, I don't blame big box stores for not making poor decisions to appease random individuals. I go straight to the source and order a case. I am not a "sheeple"... I am a very empowered consumer who can have anything he wants at his doorstep. You on the other hand are a whiney self entitled cry baby. Grow up. Take charge of your own life. Order the products you want. Who is stopping you? Academy? Sad story. Go sell it to Oprah.

Tackle warehouse all the way!