Quick Tractor Supply Rant

[studor]

I go to upstate New York on a fairly regular basis and try to stop in at the Tractor supply stores because they have items on their website that I do not see here very often and they will not ship to Canada. In all cases I have found them to be friendly but incompetent retail staff -- like a lot of places these days! The storekeeping ranges from shoddy to good -- never excellent. Inventory control seems to be a combination of oops (we are out) and FISH (first in still here). Pricing is completely irrational -- some items are priced higher than elsewhere, some are 1/2 the price! Prices on the internet never match the store. -- in the retail business these are all usually signs of new management required but they seem to keep opening new stores! Maybe you do not have to be that good to sell to us simple country folk! Oh well --just another rant from a foreigner

 

[SCDolphin]

Sorry:

Correction!

Too dumb to pour pee out of a boot wth the directions on the heel.

 

[RobJ]

hehe,

Reminds me when I was so poor I didn't have a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of.

 

[rcrcomputing]

I go to upstate New York on a fairly regular basis and try to stop in at the Tractor supply stores because they have items on their website that I do not see here very often and they will not ship to Canada. In all cases I have found them to be friendly but incompetent retail staff -- like a lot of places these days! The storekeeping ranges from shoddy to good -- never excellent. Inventory control seems to be a combination of oops (we are out) and FISH (first in still here). Pricing is completely irrational -- some items are priced higher than elsewhere, some are 1/2 the price! Prices on the internet never match the store. -- in the retail business these are all usually signs of new management required but they seem to keep opening new stores! Maybe you do not have to be that good to sell to us simple country folk! Oh well --just another rant from a foreigner

I shop at a place called Atwoods. The stores are bigger than the TSC stores I've seen around here. Other than that, most of what you say is true for them as well. Though I do like them MUCH better. The carry much more stock. They have no online store. But do list the specials on the web site. They only have 30 stores.
As for the employees, uhhhmmm, you get what you pay for... And since we all want cheap, I'd assume they don't pay their help much.

 

[JRF]

I visited the Lexington S.C. store a few months after it came to the area.
I am about 30 miles from a very good Agri-Supply store and do my shopping there. Business carried me to Columbia for a day and decided to ride over to Lexington and check out this great new store everyone was talking about.
I was very disappointed. It was such a small little store with not much inventory. It would take 5 of those stores to fit into the Agri-Supply I shop at. About a year ago, a TSC opened in the same town as the Agri-Supply, so I decided to shop in and check it out. Same old story. Haven't been in one since. If anybody has an Agri-Supply close by, check them out.
JRF

 

[Rara Avis]

I visited the Lexington S.C. store a few months after it came to the area.
I am about 30 miles from a very good Agri-Supply store and do my shopping there. Business carried me to Columbia for a day and decided to ride over to Lexington and check out this great new store everyone was talking about.
I was very disappointed. It was such a small little store with not much inventory. It would take 5 of those stores to fit into the Agri-Supply I shop at. About a year ago, a TSC opened in the same town as the Agri-Supply, so I decided to shop in and check it out. Same old story. Haven't been in one since. If anybody has an Agri-Supply close by, check them out.
JRF

We who are out of the mid-Atlantic area have to settle for the website...
Agri Supply - Where we have Something for Everyone for your Farm Shop & Home

 

[Skyco]

Well the Lexington TSC Outhouse got me again...inspecting one of my trailers this morning I saw all 4 of the valve stems were shot and about to break-off. So off to TSC to get some. Yep- needed 4 and they had 2 on the plus side the 2 they had were half the price of Autozone for the exact same item/brand.

 

[asylum575]

Where do you guys get these coupons from? I signed up for the email specials and get the 15% Online only sale. I'm looking for a 5 ft rake and 4 ft box blade and you can't buy it online. Both are $399.99 and haven't been on sale. I just can't pay full price. It's an illness, probably hereditary, I got it from my father.

 

[Runner]

"Where do you guys get these coupons from?"

Mine came in the mail.

 

[asylum575]

Never got anything in the mail. Just email. Hmmm. Gotta look into it.