I read the back and forth on this and I think everyone can come to the same conclusion. Since going public, Cabela's has degraded from a successful business model to a pot of money for the upper echelon and big time share holders take everything they can out of the company. There is no evidence of long term planning for continuing success here.
The insane and unsustainable growth of the company through building stores all over made it clear that failure was in the near future.
Running successful businesses has more to do with common sense than the number of MBA's employed in Sidney.
If you look at the company over the past 10 years, it looks like a business model specifically designed to fail.
There appears to be zero empathy for the hourly employees.
In order to keep a company going and growing requires an investment in the human factor. Those are the people who work in the stores, answer phones, work in the warehouses and distribution centers. Treat them right, pay them well and show them the respect and dignity they are entitled to, and the company will thrive. The employees will respond to good treatment with good and dependable work.
Brow beating and bullying employees does nothing productive at all. It a symptom of poorly trained and ignorant management.
For an outsider looking in, I've seen this business model before. It is employed by the mob and called a, " Bust Out."