The iconic chain is closing a flagship location. Multiple outdoors and sporting goods chains have closed stores recently. The overall market for outdoors quipment has slowed. Sporting goods and outdoors equipment retailers have struggled in recent years. You can blame the internet, the economy, and drops in consumer spending, but many of the companies that have shuttered stores or even closed for good did so due to a combination of the three. For chains like Bob's Stores, a New England-area stapl ...