Slideshow: Cabela’s offers ‘Disneyland’ for outdoors enthusiasts

By Dan Eaton, Columbus Business News – Local Columbus News | Business First of ColumbusFebruary 26, 2013 at 07:32PM

To many an outdoors enthusiast, Cabela’s Inc. is a magic kingdom. James Daugherty, general manager of the Cabela’s set to open March 7 at Polaris, talks of the “wow effect” of the destination stores.

“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.”

The Columbus store will be the 41st in the Sidney, Neb.-based chain. With so few shops, the goal is to make the environment more than a mere store.

“We…