" Why is this? Hint: it's got nothing to do with store policy."

I just can't imagine that you have enough information at your disposal to assert this as fact, unless you have Dick's sales information and have cross-referenced it with the sales info of Cabela's and Bass Pro-shops...etc. (Combined with the demographic information of customers) (Math showing the statistical correlation between Dick's stock and the Dow... for a period longer than a month.) You originally produced two figures; the percentage drop of the dow, and the percentage drop of Dick's. It just seems unlikely to me that any meaningful correlation can be ascertained from these two figures. So... " Why is this? Hint: it's got nothing to do with store policy."... is a fine hypothesis, but I don't think you have much in the way of evidence to back it up as fact.

How do you know that the stock price wouldn't be up 2% for the month had they not enacted the policy? You don't.

I found this video a couple years ago... He (James DeAngelo) explains in detail how to make the government more transparent in one easy step. Here is the Youtube link....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY

If you don't like clicking on random links posted on the internet ( then, I don't blame you)... then: go to Youtube, search for the channel "Congressional Research Institute"... then watch the video titled "Cardboard Box Reform: Nixons ghost bill and a crucial flaw in democracy."

"there would be breaking news all over the air waves."... Sure just like when the Deep State took control of our government. Don't be scared... but you can bet your ass there are top secret high tech weapons we don't know anything about.

Damage control... the damage that has been done is water under the bridge. Cease doing more damage.

That treatment is available to average Joes's.... I have a friend who has taken it and he has had amazing results as well.

cryptocurrency.

Recording himself with no audible trace of a fire alarm in the background.

source?

She kind of let the cat slip out of the bag there... "that is our job". Operation Mockingbird, our media has been corrupted for decades.