Why Academy Sports & Outdoors is going against the grain with store openings [Yahoo! Finance]
Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. (ASO)
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Source: Yahoo! Finance
Academy Sports and Outdoors has big competitors — Dick's Sporting Goods made more than double what Academy did last year — but its solution for growth is going small. Academy CEO Steve Lawrence said on an analyst call earlier this month that the sporting goods retailer plans to open 125 stores over the next five years (an increase of almost 40%), but it's not prioritizing locations close to major cities. Rather, the retailer is pursuing an “outside-in” strategy that focuses on opening stores primarily in exurbs and satellite markets before attempting to move inward. Approximately 40% of those stores will open in legacy markets, 40% will open in states Academy has operated in for at least five years and 20% will open in new markets. The strategy puts Academy closer to where its customers actually are, according to Lawrence. It also pushes the retailer out of the densely populated areas where Dick's often opens stores. Three examples of this new store strategy — in Searcy, Arizon
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