I like bass pro and liked cabelas a long time back, but the layoff last year was the best day of my tenure at cabelas, I was sooo happy to receive the RIF offer. I saw it coming and was happy for the exit option. what a cluster the last two years had been up until that point. all the "company values" had been abandoned, dishonesty and mistrust were the new norm, and too many good people had bus tire tracks across their backs. the ones appointed to steer the ship had no business cleaning toilets, much less trying to run the business. leading up to last Sept and up to this point, outfitters have been told it is all good, nothing to worry about.
if they are still serving that Kool-Aid and you are believing it, get your head out of the sand.
There is no business purpose to have any "operations" other than the DC and the retail store in Sidney, and those are even questionable in the long run. BP bought CAB for the hunting and camping customer list to market to, remaining inventory to discontinue/rebrand, and retail stores which some will remain, others will not due to market saturation, that is all, not for the outfitters well being.
why would they want to manage two IT environments, do separate inventory planning, procurement, and distribution operations, the outsourced catalog will not be necessary any longer, the product planning will be absorbed don't need two of those functions, don't need two retail planning groups, BP has digital marketing and all the other retail functional areas, they won't need duplication of these, especially the dysfunctional ones of CAB.
sure it will take 6 - 9 months to transition and cut over, if you're in a mission critical role, you may last longer. the Ozarks is a very nice place to live. Good luck.