Dick's Sporting Goods will close a number of Foot Locker stores as it begins to restructure the newly acquired business. Excluding Foot Locker, Dick's saw comparable sales rise 5.7% during its fiscal ...

Big 5 Sporting Goods has been shrinking its retail footprint for years, with locations in Denver, Fort Collins and Pocatello among those shuttering.

You could argue that the sporting goods industry has been struggling since 2016, when Sports Authority went out of business. At the time, analysts noted that the space has always been competitive.

As many retailers look for ways to shrink store counts and square footage, Dick's Sporting Goods is going bigger. The retailer is building more sprawling "House of Sport" stores, which typically come ...