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About
- Name
- Pierce's Sporting Goods Store
- Retail
- Sporting Goods / Hobby / Musical Instrument / and Book Stores
Facts
- Founded
- 1953
- Dissolved
- 2014
Related
Key Persons
- Founders
Location
- 116 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States
- 153 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States
- 143 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States
- 116 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio, United States
Huntley Gilbert Pierce opened up his "dream" in 1952: Pierce's Sporting Goods and Athletic Supplies on Liberty Street in Wooster. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mansfieldnewsjournal/obituary.aspx?pid=163870863#sthash.W4T58B2E.dpuf
Jim Weckesser purchased the business from Pierce in 1982 and eventually moved Pierce's to the building at 116 E. Liberty Street in 1992.
Jay Graves purchased Pierce's Team Sports in 2009 and closed its doors in May of 2014 because of changing market conditions. Graves said he "used to be the guy you would go to" for everything local sports teams and schools needed in the realm of equipment, custom embroidery, team uniforms and more. Today, he said, vendors are going straight to the schools with their catalogs, thereby making it impossible for a company like Pierce's to compete with those prices.
Graves also cited that the majority of sales were going online to the internet and Pierce's own e-commerce website was three-quarters finished but was not done fast enough to compete with other online retailers as that was how fast things in the sporting goods industry were moving at the time. Graves explained that the business could no longer make the margins it needed to sustain itself in an industry that was evolving extremely fast and was forced to close its doors forever.[1]
Quick Facts
- 1953 - Established
- 1958 - Wooster, Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration, June 14-21, 1958, p. 109.
- 2014 - Closed
Newspaper articles
- 14 May 2014 "Pierce's, Long-Time Wooster Sporting Goods Store, Closing Its Doors" The Daily Record, May 14, 2014
