Kari P.

This used to be a go to place for me to buy outdoor clothing and gear. Rain gear, kayak, backpacks, boots, clothing... I bought it all at Sierra Trading Post. Then it was bought out by TJMaxx et al. And I though whoo hoo I can use my store credit card credits from buying work clothes and food and kitchen items and candles at TJMaxx and buy ALL of the things at Sierra Trading Post. Yeah. Soon after the quality started to go down. WAY down into the gutter of generic no-name knock off Lu Lu Lemon leggings territory. I lived near one of the physical stores in Boise and watched the staff change from experts to generic couch potatoes, though I guess that didn't matter because I no longer had a need for expert advice because almost ALL of the gear was traded out for CANDLES, DOG BEDS, random outdoor décor and other random crap you go to TJMaxx for. Not surprisingly, the store soon moved to a smaller lot, next to a Marshalls. Um, if I want yard decorations and candles and street clothes I'll go the Marshalls, thanks... the "new" store had a backpack rack that was literally 15% of its original size and included mostly school backpacks and bladder packs. Where was Mammut, Prana, OR, Scarpa, Salomon, even freaking staples like TNF or Columbia?!?! GONE. Replaced with cheap leggings and street cloths. They no longer even had Icebreaker or Smartwool just random Made In China Knock off base layers where you would Google and literally get ZERO results. I went from spending a paycheck easy a year at STP to (checks books) to spending $33 last year, and that was only because I hit the Casper WY store and found a cute sun shirt, buff and camp coffee mug~random purchases you buy cause "you are there". That said, the upstairs was 75% NOT out door anything, unless you count Buddha statues, windchimes, and dog beds as "outdoor". Seriously, WTF happened to this brand of a store?!?! I feel like this is literally the biggest retail tragedy of the century (sorry Gabriel's, Lowman's, and Sears). Luckily, there are a plethora of other companies still doing what they are designed to do... and leaving STP as a white elephant that needs to be put down.