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Cabelas does an outstanding job. This will be a major push for the businesses in that vicinity. Next time you are in Wheeling, look at what a Cabelas did there. Your store will draw customers from Beckley and Huntington. In terms of sporting stores, they have no equal.
Does Cabela's have sporting goods and appearal like Dick's?
Why Have So Many Cities and Towns Given Away So Much Money to Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's?
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Both Bass Pro Shops and its archrival, Cabela’s, sell hunting and fishing gear in cathedral-like stores featuring taxidermied wildlife, gigantic fresh-water aquarium exhibits and elaborate outdoor reproductions within the stores. The stores are billed as job generators by both companies when they are fishing for development dollars. But the firms’ economic benefits are minimal and costs to taxpayers are great.
An exhaustive investigation conducted by the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity found that the two competing firms together have received or are promised more than $2.2 billion from American taxpayers over the past 15 years.
"Retail is not economic development. People don’t suddenly have more money to spend on hip waders because a new Bass Pro or Cabela’s comes to town," says Greg Leroy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a non-partisan economic development watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. "All that happens is that money spent at local mom and pop retailers shifts to these big box retailers. When government gives these big box stores tax dollars, they are effectively picking who the winners and losers are going to be."
According to this article: Cabela they got no tax breaks. "
Cabela's received no tax breaks or any public funding to build the store at Southridge, according to state and city officials."
According to this article: Cabela they got no tax breaks. "
Cabela's received no tax breaks or any public funding to build the store at Southridge, according to state and city officials."
that's right
Cabela's didn't need a reason other than prime location and demand to build in Charleston.
I went in the new Cabela's for the first time today. It was everything I expected it to be which is a great thing! The store was packed with people from all over, and the employees were trained well and did their job to handle the crowd.
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