Dick's Sporting Goods

[M5A]

One of the big American sporting goods chains did come up to Canada in the late 1990s - I can't remember which one. They completely bungled the expansion and stand as one of the few examples of a big box American retail chain that failed in Canada.

Sport Authority

 

[Kingsway]

there was also the US SportMart. They had a few locations too in the GTA...Lawrence and Bathurst for one and I think they were at 403 and Dundas and maybe Heartland.

Sports Authority was at Hurontario and Eglinton, Centre Street across from the Promenade where Winners is now

 

[khris]

SportMart was pretty awful though. It felt like the Walmart of Sportchek.

 

[TOareaFan]

SportMart was pretty awful though. It felt like the Walmart of Sportchek.

SportMart is still here:

http://www.sportmart.ca/

 

[Skeezix]

I don't think the current Canadian Sportmart chain has any more connection to the U.S. banner. In the states, the Sportmart chain was absorbed by SportAuthority and the name was discontinued.

 

[Dan416]

Yeah there was a Sportmart at Heartland before and it left and now there's a different SportMart there but it's got a different (i.e. cheap) logo.

 

[gabe]

The Dick's in Buffalo are pretty massive, I love browsing through them. Not bad prices either.

 

[bAuHaUs]

So what happened to their Canadian expansion?