REI is a great company for outdoor clothing and equipment; I love it!
Their stores are wonderful, wonderfully designed and full of all kinds of outdoors clothing and equipment and more. The membership model is great too, with part of your purchases back every year. REI has been around forever too, and it’s not about to get bought by some private equity firm who’d suck out all the capital and goodwill as they run it into the ground. The only bad thing I can say about REI is that I don’t get to visit and take advantage of it all enough. I’m amazed at some of the bad reviews here, since REI is anything but a scam, but people who’ve had bad experiences need a way to complain too.