And all the stores are OOS. Wat a bozo company. It's insulting that they think "free shipping" is a cyber monday promo.
Have you seen the Gas Prices lately? lol, No way I'm gonna waste my time and gas $ just to return something in-store.
And people like you are why this is becoming a thing!
I mean, they do have a 3 day cyber Monday sale going on. The free shipping is just icing on the cake I guess. lol
Sport Chek moved quite a few months ago to having clearance items as in-store pickup only. Some items still showed as being available online, but it has been getting more and more rare to find one that has snuck through for what I look at.Leggendairy wrote: ↑ I don't know what sportchek is doing with their clearance section but like 90% of the stuff I click on is "for in store pickup only" (wow what a complete 180 from the covid days) and all the stores in my area are almost always out of stock everytime. I know before, they would do this "item is only for in store pickup" when a shoe would be like 20$, or a clothing was like $5 or less. But now they are doing it on shoes that are still $80+?! Shoes I prob wouldn't even order if I could have them shipped to me. And shirts that are still $15+? What is going on over there??? I used to buy alot from them but now it feels like a waste of time browsing their inventory.
So is this a change that was done only within the last few months? I bought a raincoat on clearance earlier this year, there was literally only 1 left in stock in the entire country, and they shipped it from a Halifax store, so yeah I can definitely see the cost of shipping being an issue lol.
They stopped doing it because it was a cluster.TrevorK wrote: ↑ Sport Chek moved quite a few months ago to having clearance items as in-store pickup only. Some items still showed as being available online, but it has been getting more and more rare to find one that has snuck through for what I look at.
I can see a couple reasons:
a) People buy the clearance item they want and them a regular priced item to return in store.
b) People buy only clearance items and clear the stores out of the "good" deals
When you have the weekly CT offer to get points back at Sport Chek even paying for shipping doesn't matter because the rates are very reasonable ($10-15 for a dozen items). Their items on clearance are dirt cheap. They had Diadora toddler shoes for $7/pair (regular $40 or so) last year and I'm sure many people bought 5-10 pairs. I once snagged a 6 pack of Adidas socks for my kids for $2, and the same item stuck around for another order I placed a month later so I got another pack. It was easy to fill a cart with $75 worth of clearance items if you could get one or two pairs of cheap shoes mixed in. I would watch the shoe clearance and if something good came up, just filled my cart with other clearance items.
I can see why they stopped doing this, it's easy for people to take advantage of it. It sucks for those like me who did use it, but more for the casual shopper who now is just frustrated. I am now more likely to go elsewhere to purchase something, and for the last 4 pairs of shoes I have just gone through Under Armour directly for them. I don't want to pay $60-80 for a pair of shoes for a toddler or primary school aged kid.
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