Gander Mountain, here in Minnesota, stocks the most mystifying inventory. I have gone there for even the most basic things and they didn't have them. I wonder who does their buying. I go down the street for fishing equipment and to another place for hunting equipment. I went there last spring to buy a pair of hip boots. They didn't have any. I went there for 1/8 ounce chartreuse or white jigs, they didn't have any. I went for a new tackle box and the ones they had were no good. In this state where panfishing is popular, they didn't stock 2 pound test line. In fact, of the last 10 times I have been there, the only time they have had what I went for was when my son wanted some arrows. The stores are big, but they don't sell what I want to buy. And I'm by no means picky. It's just that the guys down the street sell products that fit the knowledgeable Minnesota outdoorsman much better.
You may ask why I bother to keep going. It's because there are several of the stores around here and I start by thinking "surely they must have X, it's a basic staple". I am almost always wrong. The one grand exception to my history was in the case of buying my shotgun. They had just the right one. But they have since quit selling Berettas, as far as I can see.
