Academy Sports + Outdoors furloughs staff, cuts pay

Katy-based Academy Sports + Outdoors has kept most of its stores open during the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s still having to make cuts.

The retailer will temporarily furlough “a substantial number of its corporate office and distribution center” employees beginning April 18, according to an April 15 press release. A portion of store employees were furloughed last week, the company said, but the exact numbers were not provided. Academy employed 2,800 total employees in the west Houston area as…