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Dick's Sporting Goods to buy Foot Locker for $2.4 billion

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Dick 's Sporting Goods is buying ailing shoe company Foot Locker for $2.4 billion .

Skechers announced it was being taken private earlier this month in a deal worth more than $9 billion .

Dick 's says it expects to run the company as a standalone unit and keep the brands.

The footwear industry has been grappling with the impact of steep new American tariffs on their production.

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