Sportsman’s Warehouse may close stores after identifying a list of underperforming locations

Utah-based outdoor retailer Sportsman’s Warehouse may be closing some of its stores in the near future.

“As part of the Company’s review of its stores, we have identified about five stores for potential closure due to underperformance and lack of profitability,” Sportsman’s Warehouse wrote in its Fiscal Year 2025 financial results press release.

Sportsman’s Warehouse did not respond to Fast Company’s request for comment on which stores it identified at the time of publication.

Sportsman’s Warehouse has 148 locations spread across 32 different states. The brand is mostly centered around western states, with 17 stores in California, 14 in Washington, and 13 in Utah, where its headquarters are located in the Salt Lake City suburb of Midvale. It is a major seller of firearms, as well as other hunting, fishing, and camping essentials.

Retailers across sectors are scaling back

Store closures are generally unsurprising these days, as many retail chains have been reducing their physical footprints. 

In just the outdoor sector, Camping World reported a net decrease of 10 store locations in 2025, including the consolidation of 17 locations. Last month, outdoor recreation retail chain Eddie Bauer announced it was closing down all of its U.S. and Canada locations in the wake of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

They’re hitting nearly all different types of retailers as well, with retailers ranging from GameStop to Walgreens among those that are scaling back on their brick-and-mortar storefronts in 2026.

This is spurred on by the shift to online retail, which started to close down physical storefronts throughout the 2010s, but hit a turbo boost during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to health and safety regulations keeping people at home.

Despite the struggles of some of its locations, Sportsman’s Warehouse actually had a 1% increase in same-store sales in fiscal year 2025, the first time that the company has achieved positive growth in that department since 2020, according to its earnings release.

Like most retailers, Sportsman’s Warehouse has a robust online storefront.

View the full article