Tom Wooding Review of REI
A big store with a lot of choices for gear, but it...
A big store with a lot of choices for gear, but it's quite obvious that it is becoming more and more orientated towards the local SLU tech-workers market. For example, the biking section is very limited to mainly "commuter style" bikes, the clothing and footwear sections are very directed towards day/weekend hikers (a disproportionate number of day hiking boots/day hiking packs compared to full camping gear), and any seasonal equipment such as ski gear is completely non existent from early spring (which seems odd considering such a large number of Seattle locals are still skiing/ski-touring at this time of year).
The service is decent, and there are still a number of enthusiastic employees who have decent knowledge of outdoor equipment. However, I still kind of expected more from a flagship store of such a large outdoor equipment supplier.

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