CALGARY — Wholesale Sports Canada Ltd., the sporting goods business owned by United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Ltd., is going out of business. UFA has announced it will wind down and eventually close all 12 of its retail locations in the four Western Canadian provinces. The inventory liquidation sales begin today.
UFA President and CEO Carol Kitchen attributed the decision to factors including “an increasingly competitive environment, the continued shift to on-line purchases, and an overall slowing of consumer discretionary spending as a whole, including the outdoor industry.”
