Utah-based outdoor retailer Sportsman’s Warehouse may be closing some of its stores in the near future.
“As part of the Company’s review of its stores, we have identified about five stores for potential closure due to underperformance and lack of profitability,” Sportsman’s Warehouse wrote in its fiscal year 2025 financial results press release.
Sportsman’s Warehouse did not respond to Fast Company’s request for comment at the time of publication about which stores have been identified for closure.
The company has 148 locations spread across 32 states. The brand is mostly centered around Western states, with 17 stores in California, 14 in Washington, and 13 in Utah, where its headquarters are located in the Salt Lake City suburb of Midvale. It is a major seller of firearms, as well as other hunting, fishing, and camping essentials.
Retailers across sectors are scaling back
Store closures are generally unsurprising these days, as many retail chains have been reducing their physical footprints.
In the outdoor sector alone, Camping World reported a net decrease of 10 store locations in 2025, including the consolidation of 17 locations. Last month, outdoor recreation retail chain Eddie Bauer announced it was shuttering all of its U.S. and Canadian locations in the wake of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
Such downsizing efforts have affected all different types of retailers as well, with companies ranging from GameStop to Walgreens among those that are scaling back on their brick-and-mortar storefronts in 2026.
This is spurred on by the shift to online retail, with physical storefronts slowly disappearing throughout the 2010s, but it hit a turbo boost during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to health and safety regulations keeping people at home.
Despite the struggles of some of its locations, Sportsman’s Warehouse actually had a 1% increase in same-store sales in fiscal year 2025, the first time that the company has achieved positive growth in that department since 2020, according to its earnings release.
Like most retailers, Sportsman’s Warehouse has a robust online storefront.