The Hustle: Inside the Wild Business of Bass Pro Shops

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People drive across state lines to visit a fishing store. Some get married inside one. And Bass Pro didn't accidentally become that kind of place. The reason comes down to a three-rung ladder that pulls customers in deeper with every visit — and it explains why REI's version of the same idea lost money for 40 years, why cities hand Bass Pro the kind of subsidies usually reserved for NFL stadiums, and why its Memphis location ended up printed on the Tennessee driver's license. We spent a day inside one to figure out how a fishing store becomes the kind of place people build their lives around.

NODEHAUS handled the entire post-production for this piece — from ingesting, archival research, editing, motion-graphics animation, sound and color.

Original link: https://youtu.be/90EU_U2Nt4c

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