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    Big 5 Sporting Goods

    2.8 (63 reviews)
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    Amy S.

    Mom bought me some new snow shoes just before our most recent trip to Tahoe. I love her! Really cute black snow boots and they were on sale for $5 off. Armando rang us up at the register and was really nice too. Great experience and the shoes were fabulous during the snowy weather.

    Store hours apparently have changed but the sign hasn't!

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    8 years ago

    This place needs help. the employees are zero help, and always walk away when you are asking a question or need help with a product

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    small store with constant supply shortage. Especially on sale item, You could never find right size. Manager was VERY rude.

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    great store, great people. our go-to store for sports gear and bicycle gear and maintenance…read more shout out to grace and alon in the shoe department. both helped me with a new pair of Hoka's. Thank you! Also, love that fact Sports Basement recycles used shoes and other gear.

    Between friendly Grace up front at the counter to nice chat and banter with the humorous and…read morecustomer-service-oriented Mr. Young upstairs to the elder woman ( maybe in her late 60's, thick-rimmed glasses, quick wit, re-stocking clothes then scanning SKUs to get prices for me on various items ), a generally good shopping experience. Really love the store layout, not sterile, has personality to it, the variety of sports items, apparel, shoes, and was even pleasant enough with the air-conditioning and fans on. Can't give it 5 Stars, though. Would love to, but this place has more items missing price tags than Grocery Outlet! Mentioned it to a couple of the employees, one replied there are "some items" where that is true ( more than some ), and another assured me that the items I was referring to had price tags on them. Yeah, No! At least in the energy bars / nutrition / protein powders / hydration packs, etc. department. Yes, there are some stickers designating price / bar and price / box, which IS helpful, then...a row or two or three of suddenly no price tags. And look at it this way, if you're going to put in the effort to label containers with expiration dates like "5/27" ( which seems like the store did in the spirit of good customer service ), then you CAN actually make the effort to clarify to the customer what item is what price. ( Why does this seem like basic Common Sense here, and if managers are not on top of this problem, then that is on them. I spent too much time walking the aisles, trying to find pricing, asking for help to scan items, discovering more things without pricing. Fix that problem ASAP. Or install a scanner in parts of the store for customers to utilize on their own. ) Overall, check out the store. Here's another reason why: I observed (2) separate employees, one younger 20's male in the running shoe department, one latter 20's female in the ski boot department, personally attending to customers, giving their input on products, doing some old-school sales and persuasion. VERY GOOD to see that. Both had product knowledge, were hands-on, was refreshing to see. Thumbs up!

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