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Slideshow: Cabela's offers 'Disneyland' for outdoors enthusiasts

19.05.13

“I tell people we’re the Disneyland of retail,” he told me. “People come in here smiling and they smile the whole time they’re here. Daugherty said each store’s mountain is designed different and stocked with different wildlife. James Daugherty , general manager of the Cabela’s set to open March 7 at Polaris, talks of the “wow effect” of the destination stores. “We have people that come to all the openings,” Daugherty said. Columbus’ also includes a working waterfall that tumbles down into a 6,000-gallon fish tank stocked with trout and a northern pike, but by opening day will also have catfish, bluegill and bass. The Columbus store will be the 41st in the Sidney, Neb. “They’ll get a Cabela’s Columbus hat or keychain to add to their collection. Columbus is heavy on whitetail deer since they’re so populous here. Just as Disney has its signature Cinderella’s Castle, Cabela’s has its mountain. When you only have seven or nine days a year to get out and they want to visit us, we have to be sure we’re on our game.

Source: Business First of Columbus (blog)