Sports Authority

Store is clean but crowded with displays, on some clearance items you can find a good deal but prices are a little expensive. Store has a wide variety of shoes, clothes, exercise equipment and novelty items. Staff is helpful and friendly

This location does this trick if you know what you’re looking for. Employees were alert and helpful. The coupon for $ 10 off $ 50 was an added bonus.

This Place is MESS!
went here august 3 around 5pm. when i drive by the entrance all i see not 3 but 4 Trash can that are full of trash and some trash was fall to the ground. i dont think they ever clean up the trash can.
so i enter the entrace i see only 1 cash register that are work. there are probably 4? but only 1 is work and other 3 register have full of stuff on the counter.
i mean everything was messed! the skates/​roller blades are all around the ground. and shoes are disorganized.
there is no employee to ask a question. so i just got out and went to walmart.

This store is a mess-​. disheveled, unkempt and its been this way for years. I don’t understand why management doesn’t take more pride in this store, you need plastic gloves to open the doors –I don’t think the windows have been washed in 15 years. Hard to find staff to help you when you go in there. I’ve given this place several tries –no more. I’ll drive a bit further to find a more pleasant shopping experience

OK, so I have a small obsession with buying running clothes and running shoes. The problem is I don’t ever run in them, I just lounge around the house in them. Yeah. I know.
So, SA emails me that 20% coupon like every other day and I figured I’d been doing realllly good at not buying new running shoes so I went into the store. Not a huge selection, but I did find a few pairs of ASICS I don’t have yet.
Along comes nice old man to see if I need help. And then he proceeds to give me a 6 minute speech on how the shoe liners (is that what they’re called) are total crap in these shoes and that I would just HAVE to buy inserts or I could seriously damage my feet. Yeah. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that I doubted I would damage my feet while wearing my cute new running shoes to the mailbox or while pushing my cart around Target. I just took it as a sign that I shouldn’t get any new shoes. I left.
A few weeks later I got an email from SA featuring the newest ASICS and my running shoe obsession got the best of me and I found myself back at Sports Authority armed with another 20% off coupon. Found 2 pairs I HAD TO HAVE and proceeded to sit down to try them on.
And guess who pops up right then? Yup, old man pushing the damn inserts for my damn shoes again. WTF?! «Fine,» I said. «I’ll take the inserts, too.» But I fully intended to leave them somewhere in the store before checking out. Because YES, I am that easily pressured. Damn it.
Somehow I forgot to put the inserts down and they ended up in my bag and out the door with me. When I checked my receipt I saw that they were only like $ 10 so I wasn’t worried about it. Then I put them in my shoes. HOLY CRAP! They made such a huge difference!
The next day I went back to SA and bought a pair of the gel heel inserts for my fiancé.
Moral of the story: Get the inserts.

Roomie wanted to invest in some better quality goggles after convincing her that it wasn’t worth spending a few bucks here and there for cheap quality goggles. Given that I was on swim team for a few years, I know the difference good quality and crappy quality goggles can do. Heck, when I had cheap quality goggles, no matter how I dived, and now matter HOW TIGHT the goggles were to my face, water always managed to seep in. Now, in the middle of a swim meet, swimming a 400 individual medley, you know HOW important it is to have high quality goggles, so that you can at least see, and race comfortably.
So, since we were driving by yesterday from seeing one of my friends who is a recruiter for the Marines, we decided to go ahead and buy some essential swim gear. Parking was awesome since it was a rainy, rainy day that no one seemed to be out, that we were able to get the closest parking spot to be able to run in relatively un-​wet. Staff was extremely helpful, constantly asking us if we needed help finding anything, etc.
When we checked out, it started POURING outside, and the cashier was nice enough to offer us some bags to cover our hairs so they wouldn’t get drenched. However, we decided to wait it out a bit, and once we ran up on time, my roomie ran out to bring the car around for me, and boy, she wasn’t completely dry lol. But we’ve had worse experiences downtown riding the GSU shuttle and being COMPLETELY drenched, so we were okay this time.
Overall, not a bad experience, regular retail prices, an abundance of everything you might need, and probably more.

One advantage to driving way, way OTP for work is that I get to take advantage of retail locations out here, when it might be inconvenient to get to the in-​town locations. I have learned my lesson to avoid Peachtree/​Piedmont/​entire Lennox area during the month of December, but getting to a Sports Authority was necessary.
I was welcomed when I entered the store, and went straight for the shoe section. I’d worn through my current pair of tennis shoes and was hoping that I’d at least have a few choices. Although the aisle signs for «Women’s Tennis Shoes» actually led me to girls running shoes, I eventually found where I needed to be. They don’t have nearly the selection as PGA does down the street, but the options here were much better priced ($ 50-​$ 60 per pair vs. $ 80-​$ 120 for the «designer» shoes at PGA). I was able to find two styles I liked enough to try on, one of which fit, and that’s what I bought. Love easy purchases.
Next on my list– some clothing items. I’ve had some issues at my local Sports Authority finding the items I want, in the size/​color I want, in stock. This store doesn’t look like it gets much love from the locals, so I was skeptical about if they’d have a good selection.
Once I found the item I was looking for, I was pleased to find my size of the item in four different colors! I actually got to choose my color instead of just taking what’s there. I picked up two. Then off to find some light, long-​sleeved shirts for outdoor activity. Either these sell out every year at my normal store or they keep them hidden, but I’ve been wanting to buy more of these for the last 2 winters and have had trouble. This store, though, I again was able to find exactly what I was looking for in lots of sizes and colors. Success!
Prices for nice sports equipment & apparel are pretty high, so I recommend looking for coupons ahead of time. I printed one off that was 25% off a single item. I’ve had trouble with using digital coupons (such as the one offered on Unilocal) but usually employees can offer whatever their current deal is. My cashier signed me up for their loyalty program before I knew what was happening… I think they said 5% cash back on all purchases? That works for me.
I’ll definitely be back to this location for my exercising needs!

A nice, big sporting good store. I can’t say it’s my favorite place to go for sporting goods, but a wide selection of sporting goods, active wear, and other sports related items, a good place to visit. Prices are pretty high, so if they have similar items at sams club or target super store (conveniently located right next to them) i usually go there.
I’m glad they are here, just not my 1^st choice for sporting goods due to the high prices. Overall though, I’m a fan and have been here about 7 times so far and will continue to come back.
Cheers!