Tractor Supply - how does it work?? (rant)

[two_bit_score]

Amazon will kill many stores like TSC.

TSC is opening more stores all the time in Texas.

 

[two_bit_score]

You will do better at your local farmers co-op called WILCO. We have one up here and they run circles around the two TSC stores in the area. Bulk bolts are 30% cheaper and larger selection. Way over priced on everything. WILCO also gives a 10% military discount which TSC refuses to match. Big deal for me.

Ron

For anyone in Central Texas this is the best Co-op:

Home - Producer's Cooperative Association

www.producerscooperative.com

 

[k0ua]

You lucky dey got a employee in de store can pronounce tractor.
Someplace called headquarters got a big bunch of MBA fellows workin from home.
TS putting up new stores thou.

Hey, (removed), how ya doing buddy? Haven't seen you on for a while. ...or is that just a licensed franchise?

 

[two_bit_score]

We have 2 Tractor Supply stores here in Tyler. The original store in Tyler is pretty bad. I haven't been in there in years. The newer store is on the other side of town, and much nicer. If I need something from TSC, I go to the new store.

We also have an Atwoods, and it's twice as big with better prices. The only reason to go to Tractor Supply is if it's something that they are the only place that sells it. I'm at Atwoods once a week. I've been to Tractor Supply 3 times this year.

I get the wife to drop me off at Northern Tool on the rare times she needs to go to the Broadway mall in Tyler. I’ve never been to the Atwood’s in Tyler but they are getting more prevalent in East Texas. Not so much in Central Texas or the Coast that I have seen.

 

[Xfaxman]

Hey, (removed), how ya doing buddy? Haven't seen you on for a while. ...or is that just a licensed franchise?

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[5030]

TSC has been vacuuming up smaller chains for a while now. Problem is, instead of leaving them alone, they make them a mirror image of their company stores and in reality TSC ain't very good.

Like the Cabelas / Bass pro deal. I don't shop either anymore.

 

[Jstpssng]

Hey, (removed), how ya doing buddy? Haven't seen you on for a while. ...or is that just a licensed franchise?

It appears that he’s gone, for whatever reason. I believe that he deleted his account.

 

[Jstpssng]

TSC has been vacuuming up smaller chains for a while now. Problem is, instead of leaving them alone, they make them a mirror image of their company stores and in reality TSC ain't very good.

Like the Cabelas / Bass pro deal. I don't shop either anymore.

I feel the same, but have learned not to say that in circles I keep.
For 15 years my employer had given Cabelas gift certificates for Christmas... I’ve asked them to try someplace else this year. Cabelas was always a great mail order vendor, yet now seem to be pushing toward “pickup” at their retail stores. I dropped a note telling them that there are hundreds of sporting goods shops between here and their nearest store... the likelyhood of me driving 250 miles to shop there is about the same as of me getting a hole-in-one.

I don’t play golf.

 

[MoKelly]

Did (removed)'s name get removed?

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Isn’t that the weirdest thing. Type his name and it shows as (removed). Technology is scary.

MoKelly

 

[Xfaxman]

The strange thing is the original name was changed to user.69169 and now that doesn't work either if you click it or search for it.

 

[MoKelly]

The strange thing is the original name was changed to user.69169 and now that doesn't work either if you click it or search for it.
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Yep you are correct.

Oh well - I enjoyed some of his posts. He had a good sense of humor.

MoKelly

 

[PILOON]

Canadians are spoiled. (if U have a branch nearby)
Princess Auto seems to be the store that Tractor supply was once.
Last week I visited looking to get hydraulic components and was I impressed.
Hundreds of cylinder choices, gears, sprockets, adaptors, shafting, and a custom hose fabrication.
Tools, welding supplies etc.
Good promotional specials and a cool surplus section.
They must be doing something right as this is their 50th store across Canada.
Kind of set up as in warehouse style but each aisle/section well identified.
Really a DIY guy's paradise.
Friendly VERY knowledgable staff as well. (and lots on hand)

I would not go as far as to say 'best prices or deals' but would say very fair pricing but very well stocked.
AND, I'm a picky informed consumer that constantly monitors pricing trends.

Frequent decent 'specials' that are very attractive.
Ownership is also very patriotic and respects military service discounts.

As to Covid they are very consciously complying.

No, I'm not in any way associated, just a pleasantly surprised consumer.

 

[5030]

I've heard that before. Too bad TSC has sink to new lows.

 

[lman]

Canadians are spoiled. (if U have a branch nearby)
Princess Auto seems to be the store that Tractor supply was once.
Last week I visited looking to get hydraulic components and was I impressed.
Hundreds of cylinder choices, gears, sprockets, adaptors, shafting, and a custom hose fabrication.
Tools, welding supplies etc.
Good promotional specials and a cool surplus section.
They must be doing something right as this is their 50th store across Canada.
Kind of set up as in warehouse style but each aisle/section well identified.
Really a DIY guy's paradise.
Friendly VERY knowledgable staff as well. (and lots on hand)

I would not go as far as to say 'best prices or deals' but would say very fair pricing but very well stocked.
AND, I'm a picky informed consumer that constantly monitors pricing trends.

Frequent decent 'specials' that are very attractive.
Ownership is also very patriotic and respects military service discounts.

As to Covid they are very consciously complying.

No, I'm not in any way associated, just a pleasantly surprised consumer.

That doesn't sound like our TSC. Most of their business is pet food, chicken and horse feed.

 

[jmc]

Tractor Supply Co. looks like an interesting case study between what customers think (on TBN) and what investors think. Just for fun, I compared TSCO stock price with the Standard and Poor's 500 over the last 3 years. S&P 500 has been on a tear- up 57% in 3 years. Incredibly, TSCO is up 200% in the same 3 years!

Decades ago, a rockstar mutual fund manager (forgot his name) wrote a book on investing. One of his tips was that consumers often know a company better than the analysts do and it might take awhile for the analysts to figure it out.

 

[two_bit_score]

Tractor Supply Co. looks like an interesting case study between what customers think (on TBN) and what investors think. Just for fun, I compared TSCO stock price with the Standard and Poor's 500 over the last 3 years. S&P 500 has been on a tear- up 57% in 3 years. Incredibly, TSCO is up 200% in the same 3 years!

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I was wondering when this was going to come up.

 

[Oaktree]

That doesn't sound like our TSC. Most of their business is pet food, chicken and horse feed.

I've only been familiar with TSC for 10-12 years when they expanded into this part of the country, and that's pretty much what they've been the whole time. I don't know what they were like many years ago.

To me multiple aisles of rubber bones, dog biscuits and other crap like that seems excessive, but it seems to work for them.

Tractor Supply Co. looks like an interesting case study between what customers think (on TBN) and what investors think. Just for fun, I compared TSCO stock price with the Standard and Poor's 500 over the last 3 years. S&P 500 has been on a tear- up 57% in 3 years. Incredibly, TSCO is up 200% in the same 3 years!

Are TBN'ers "typical" TSC customers? The store nearest me always seems to be busy, they must be doing something right. Maybe the word "tractor" in their name is taken by some to mean they're an ag supply store?

Speaking of store names...I'd never heard of Princess Auto before this thread, but that seems to be kind of a wimpy name for an ag store.

Stock prices (in the short term) can be deceiving...does anyone think Tesla is worth even 10% of what it's stock price is?

 

[lman]

TSC is doing well around here because there is limited competition. We used to have another farm/hardware store and a feed mill, but those closed up years ago. There is some competition 30 miles away, but the price of fuel recently makes me think twice about shopping further away.

 

[Wakey]

Tractor Supply is getting heat for the birds they are selling. This popped up on YouTube today. This is a popular channel for homesteaders and he laid it all out for everyone to see after getting the run around from TSC.

https://youtu.be/puU_A7A3-dM

 

[MoKelly]

Tractor Supply is getting heat for the birds they are selling. This popped up on YouTube today. This is a popular channel for homesteaders and he laid it all out for everyone to see after getting the run around from TSC.

https://youtu.be/puU_A7A3-dM

Hey, doesn’t everyone want to start their own flock?

MoKelly