Del's Feed and Farm Supply

BarnyardEngineering · Dec 12, 2016

Is this a sign of things to come?

I just looked at the shopping bag I got yesterday at Tractor Supply. It says "Del's Feed and Farm Supply" on it.

Does this mean Tractor Supply is changing it's name?

This would be a good thing. It means that some of you can stop complaining that Tractor Supply doesn't sell tractor parts.

rrlund · Dec 12, 2016

Maybe they're just so hard up that they have to recycle old bags.

D beatty · Dec 12, 2016

No Del's is becoming part of Tractor Supply. Sometime in March Del's will become part of TSC.

mjsnodgrass · Dec 12, 2016

I believe tractor supply bought del's a couple of years ago. here is sw Washington, all of the del's have closed. I still get adds from del's however.

DeltaRed · Dec 12, 2016

Most people dont realize Tractor Supply started in 1938 selling(you guessed it! LOL) tractor parts.That was the focus of their
business for many years.I have a1962 and '63 TCS catalogs,it's amzeing how much stuff they had avalable.Even more amazing is the
prices!With farms getting bigger and less farmers,they eventially switched to clothes,'horse stuff,tools.... to survive.

Part Time Pete · Dec 12, 2016

I don't have a problem with what they sell - just what they sell but don't have in stock...

Traditional Farmer · Dec 12, 2016

Plus farmers are tightwads.They could have been like the old Central Tractor outfit kept catering to farmers until they went bankrupt.We have a Rural King,Several Tractor Supply stores and a few other farm stores in my general area none are perfect,none get me to list what inventory I want to buy maybe some time or the other,etc etc but I'm glad for everyone of them as between them all I can usually get what I need to get the job done.

NY 986 · Dec 12, 2016

I worked for CT for a number of years and I know that catering to farmers was the least of their problems. The largest problem was thinking that they could compete with Walmart on general merchandise when they did a tiny fraction of the business that Wally did. CT greatly feared during the 1990's that Wally was going to aggressively go into the farm supply business which was contrary to Wally's philosophy of high volume merchandise. From about 1995 onward it was all downhill for CT as they did nothing well and took away each store's ability to tailor to it's territory. The Brody family were decent operators when CT was pretty much parts and hard ag merchandise but were out of their element when they started growing the company around 1990.

BarnyardEngineering · Dec 12, 2016

I just looked up Del's and all the stores are in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

I got this bag in the middle of nowhere in NY state.

This Del's place must've had a billion shopping bags printed up and stockpiled if Tractor Supply is distributing them to their stores to be used.

Ellis Kinney · Dec 12, 2016

I sent an e-mail to TSC about a month ago about that. Not in stock. Over the previous month I stopped at TSC 3 different times for a specific item that wasn't in stock. I mentioned that there was a Loew's and a Home Depot nearby. Ellis

BarnyardEngineering · Dec 12, 2016

The not in stock thing is a perpetual problem with feed and farm supply chains as long as I can remember. Central Tractor was like that. Quality Farm and Fleet that replaced it in my area was worse. Of the three Tractor Supply has been the worst offender, and if they don't have something they will order it for me and have it in a few days. Of course I can do it over the Internet too but then I lose my farm sales tax exempt status.

JayinNY · Dec 12, 2016

We had a central tractor here in the 80s then it became farm and family center, now it's tsc. Then they opened a Runnings next town over.

NY 986 · Dec 12, 2016

Probably nobody in CT management ever gave it thought but a clothing retailer over in Geneva may have had the answer when it downsized the store in terms of square footage. Get to a store size that is profitable for the square footage and adjust employment to reflect that. There were just too many lines in a CT that were there to lend a feel of a full line rural store versus making real profit. Get the reduced payroll to concentrate on for profit lines instead of using payroll to pander customers on time and product that was not going to yield a profit. CT was very concentrated on cost per square foot but I never heard analysis of rent against profitable and non-profitable lines. Many towns around the state have idle store space to make moves on or did back in the day. Oh well, the whole subject is academic at this point as CT is never coming back as a brick and mortar retailer.

coshoo · Dec 12, 2016

Dels was merged into TSC a couple of years ago- the local Dels closed, and they opened a TSC out by the Interstate.

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