Tractor Supply not carrying parts in store?

AL Farmall Boy":hgibrl6e said:
I have to ask......what is a pew-pew? You are saying they are opening a new RK or a Tractor Supply in Huntsville?
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Pew-pew, pea shooter, long rifle. They had a sale, a month or so back, but the local store only received 2. The new store in Huntsville will be a huge Rural King, but that is according to the employees, a manager backed up the info though.
 
I can see it. That stuff rarely moves, and you can't tie up all that shelf space with stuff that doesn't move "just in case" one guy comes along once a year and needs something from that selection. It's business. Margins are so tiny now you've got to continuously be emptying and restocking the shelves through sales just to keep the lights on these days.

The Internet caused this, not the other way around. Because you can get the same parts online for about 1/2 the price delivered to your door, people stopped buying them at TSC and local dealers. If they were selling, TSC would keep stocking.

...and if'n you're going to complain about Tractor Supply's name, I'm going to complain about Rural King's name. They don't sell Kings, and they aren't located in truly Rural areas!
 
Matt Kirsch":1rcs6t07 said:
...and if'n you're going to complain about Tractor Supply's name, I'm going to complain about Rural King's name. They don't sell Kings, and they aren't located in truly Rural areas!
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But they are the King to those of us in the Rural areas. Tractor Supply has simply quit supplying tractor supplies, even in rural areas like mine.
 
I see dejavu in local stores in competition with online retailers, a hundred years ago it was mail order retailers Sears, JCPenney, and Montgomery Ward. Wonder what the landscape would be like if those three had weathered the last twenty years better and caught the digital wave. They had the infrastructure, distribution, and mailing like Amazon does a hundred years before Amazon.
 
I used them more for dog supplies than anything else but found the same problem. They would frequently be out of what I wanted. I asked when they would have it in stock and it would be something like - the truck comes on Wednesday - and when I came back on Thursday they were still out. They opened a Menards the same distance away from me where I can get the same dog treats and I haven’t been back since. I don’t know how they chose the name Tractor Supply.
 
lyle11":bo43x5zc said:
I used them more for dog supplies than anything else but found the same problem. They would frequently be out of what I wanted. I asked when they would have it in stock and it would be something like - the truck comes on Wednesday - and when I came back on Thursday they were still out. They opened a Menards the same distance away from me where I can get the same dog treats and I haven’t been back since. I don’t know how they chose the name Tractor Supply.
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Try to find "4 health" dog food at Wallyworld or Meijers or even the big name canine stores---Tractor supply has it but hardly any cub stuff anymore...

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Barnyard":3pmgdv7r said:
If you guys ever get a Rural King you'll wonder why Tractor Supply is even in business.
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Lots of Rural King stores here in Illinois. I live about 20 miles from their corporate HQ and original store in Mattoon, IL. They do have lots of merchandise including clothes, boots, gloves, anything Carhart, tools, plumbing/ building supplies, feed, seed, farm/ lawn/ garden supplies, mowers and parts, Agri-Fab products, guns and ammo, etc. But I don't know about tractor parts as I haven't shopped for that. I have seen tractor mufflers, hitch pins, small stuff like that. Oh, they do sell a line of private-branded tractors and attachments. I think they are Mahindra. Not all stores carry them. Probably stuff I forget, too.
 
Hard to believe but there's only one RK in PA and it's out west in Clearfield, almost three hours from here. Sure would be nice if one opened in eastern PA.
 
just bought 2 "4 health" big bags of dog food at TS---one was $32 and the other was $29-----both had $5 off coupon. Haven't seen any discounts for this dog food in years at TS
 
I stupidly went to TSC, today, for 2 things on sale.Neither in stock. Am I surprised? No, only that I was stupid enough to expect that they might have the things, in the ad!
Ed
 
My son was just there for cadet vee belts. He said even there tractor parts aren’t restocked.
My 42” ih cadet cadet needed a belt.
 
When I got a new tranny for my truck I had to wait a week....factories, dealers and distributors were shut down or slow because of COVID...and we had 3 months of slow imports. I had a hard time getting flail knives and the price was doubled from Flailmaster and they said it was because the factory that made the knives was shut down for a while. I believe some of it is because of backlog. American made parts had a tough time for a while
 
ScottyD'sdad":26prhrbc said:
I call them "Girly Supply". You can find supplies for your horsey, or chickies, but not for your tractor!

Ed
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Yup...one aisle of tractor stuff at the local one. Tried to get some fence hardware for gates and the strap hinges they had were out.

On the other hand they do have a section of pet and livestock meds and vaccines - a plus.

Not really a tractor store. Wish we had an Agri-Supply like they do in N.C. I get my tractor stuff from a little shop called Ted's Farm Equipment. Not uncommon to see an orphaned calf on the floor penned in and cats on the counters and dogs coming and going through the door. Shop local, but not at TSC.
 
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