Dick’s Sporting Goods is grappling with an uptick in retail theft that contributed to a 23% drop in profits, prompting it to slash its full year outlook.
from numerous sources, including a slowdown in its outdoor category, which includes hard goods like camping equipment. During the quarter, Dick's used promotions to offload inventory from the category.
"It's moved. It's kind of gone up. We expect it could even get a little bit worse. We've taken a little bit bigger reserve for that in the second half of the year. Just because what we see going on with organized retail crime, grab and go's," Stack said in an interview."We think we're doing the best we can to try to curtail it with the security that we have in the stores, working with local authorities.
In a bid to streamline its cost structure and reinvest in different parts of the business, the company cut less than 1% of its global workforce on Monday, primarily at its customer support center. The cuts largely impacted headquarter roles and account for less than 10% of corporate positions, Stack said.
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