My wife worked at the BPS when it opened here and knows how the place is. Everything that's clearance or on sale is hit by the employees first and held for their friends. This happens everywhere, so it's not really such a big deal. But, we went to the Fall Hunting sale today, and they didn't have half of what they had advertised. After spending nearly 4 hours going through the place we checked out with everything from a feeder to food plot stuff to a harness for my son.....$470 worth of stuff, would have been$1000 if they'd had the other stuff I wanted. Went to check out, not problems. Unfortunately you can only buy a license at the return desk, so me and my son walked up to the desk where there was only one customer. Fifteen minutes waiting and talking to the customer because the employee was clueless, and Manager of the Day or MOD apparently. After the customer in front of me left, she looked at me, the went on to givea kid who just walked up change. While the kid was waiting, a Vendor from one of the companies there walked up. She looked at me again, then proceeded to ring up the vendor. After I interrupted her, she "realized" she'd ignored me. I said my peace and was willing to buy my license at Wal-mart when she, without realizing I was standing by the door, proceeded to make faces and laugh with the wife of the vendor who'd walked up. By this time I was about at PO'd as any human can get.
Needless to say, I ended up leaving with nothing, they lost $470 and the store manager is going to get a call from me next time she's in the store.

Makes me sick that such a place that started with the customer coming first is now nothing more than the Wal-mart of the hunting and fishing world.