Columbia Pro Golfing Association professionals, with hundreds across America, have been laid off Dick’s Sporting Goods.
The tore is reporting decreased sles and poor profit production in a lackluster economy.
Earlier this week Dick’s laid off at least up-to 400 or more PGA-certified employees in the golf division of its sporting goods stores.
Work as a golf pro will get much more difficult to get. Dick's was the largest single employer of PGA professionals in the country. Industry officials were left in shock by the horrible economic news.
The PGA pros sold golf equipment sales, club fitting, helped with instruction and repaired golf clubs.
There are Midland's Dick’s locations, including a busy location on Bower Parkway in Columbia.
Indications, through a store upgrade locally, were were that Dick's would expand its golf services, but maybe Dick's officials did not anticipate a contraction of the US economy.
There has been little good, or sustained, economic news since late 2008.
Reports that the country had survived a deep recession, and began a recovery were more media hype than actual growth and expansion.
Many sectors remain stagnant and the GDP is actually shrinking.
The Obama Administration has had no answers, other than to spend more money on job training programs, extended unemployment checks and food stamps.
The American people have suffered despite reports of rosy employment numbers.
The question is: How much longer will people keep believing the current office-holders in Washington DC have any answers to remedy the malaise.
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