Dick’s Sporting Goods and Public Lands, the outdoor arm of Dick’s Sporting Goods, will pilot an in-store buy-back program for select hard and soft gear in select markets.
The program is supported by Out&Back, a Denver-based online platform that announced this week it is expanding into hard gear sales by partnering with Dick’s Sporting Goods and Public Lands, which will launch in two outdoor markets in Denver, CO and Pittsburgh, PA.
Out&Back will accept hard goods in-store at select locations (Public Lands in Cranberry Twp, PA; Dick’s Sporting Goods in Pittsburgh, PA (South Hills); and Lakewood, CO). With previously accepted items, including outerwear, tents, backpacks, and other soft goods, newly accepted categories include skis and snowboards from Burton, Atomic, Bent Metal, Blizzard Tecnica, GNU, Nordica, and more, with additional categories added as the partnership evolves.
Out&Back and Dick’s will donate one percent of the value of offers given to sellers to 1% For The Planet as part of the partnership. The program will launch at Public Lands in Pittsburgh on April 29 and Dick’s stores in Pittsburgh and Denver in the coming weeks.
“Working with Out&Back to give people an opportunity to explore the outdoors and reduce our environmental footprint at the same time is a win-win,” said Peter Land, chief sustainability officer, Dick’s Sporting Goods.
Photo courtesy Public Lands
