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larry@stinescorner

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• Mar 3, 2018

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This one is still hanging on in Raritan NJ,,They sell mostly garden supplies.You can see the old loading dock/platform is not used anymore.Ill bet many old pickups and rackbeds have backed up to that loading dock in the past.What do you think...??

 

flembo

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• Mar 3, 2018

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3 Agways within 24 miles of me I just went to the one in Peterborough today for Bird Seed and Peanuts, what we do for the wildlife, but we sure enjoy watching them all.

 

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lee little

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• Mar 3, 2018

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Same here in Tn. Larry. In the 60s and 70s many little stores sold feed and tractor and equipment parts. There were at least a half dozen places that stocked manure spreader chain and sickle mower parts . Now those things have to be special ordered by the one parts store that will. Its sort of sad.

 

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sms

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• Mar 3, 2018

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Our local ones have become Home and Garden Centers, but I think they said they can use the name for a fee or as a franchise. Been some years since I talked to them about it.

 

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Brendon Warren

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• Mar 3, 2018

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I ended up with a concussion when I was about eight years old. I jumped off the loading dock at our local Agway on to the truck tailgate. The door on the truck cap came up when I did. I ended up on the parking lot on my head. That Agway is long gone. There is still one in Heuvelton NY. I just bought a new pair of boots there. Alot of Amish left that shop there.

 

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NY 986

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• Mar 3, 2018

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Agway used to have quite a number of locations around the region a generation ago but their reputation had gotten pretty poor by the 1990's.

 

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Adirondack case guy

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• Mar 3, 2018

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The last employer that I worked for was an Agway. They had a sub S spin-off that was the highest volume Harman pellet stove dealer in NY., that I worked for. They hired me to manage the Renewable energy division, selling and installing Solar thermo, Wind, and Solar PV equipment. The stress from lack of support from management brought on my first series of strokes. I was for the most part a one man band, doing all the sales, installs and all the red tape to make sure the installs were certified by the power companies, and qualified for the state and federal rebate programs. It ended up being an all consuming job for both me and my wife.
Strokes came and I decided the job wasn't worth it.
The main store is still branded Agway, but they have become a pet and garden center. The alternative heating division is still thriving, with Harman and other lines of gas and wood burning appliances.
Loren

 

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NY 986

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• Mar 3, 2018

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My fuel oil furnace came from the Agway Energy Division. They always used to bug me about buying fuel for the farm but I could always find it considerably cheaper elsewhere.

 

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farmerwithmutt

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• Mar 3, 2018

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Can't remember all the times backing up to the dock at the feed mill to pick up just ground feed. They still have a dock at the livestock yard for pickups but not much of a wait as it used to be.

 

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rick n ohio

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• Mar 3, 2018

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Never heard of one before here in Ohio kidding

 

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wolfman

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• Mar 3, 2018

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Our local Agway (s.w.Pa) closed about 20 years ago. I supplied them with a lot of straw. Bought my first chainsaw there.

 

Brian G. NY

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• Mar 3, 2018

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(quoted from post at 00:43:37 03/04/18) This one is still hanging on in Raritan NJ,,They sell mostly garden supplies.You can see the old loading dock/platform is not used anymore.Ill bet many old pickups and rackbeds have backed up to that loading dock in the past.What do you think...??

I think the Agway stores began as G.L.F. stores....at least the one near me in Cobleskill, NY did.
I still back up to that same loading dock to get real farm stuff like 100 lb. bags of lime, etc.

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jeffcat

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• Mar 3, 2018

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You got to remember that Agway is not the original store. The name was GLF. That goes back to the early to mid 60s or such. There are still those stores around but mostly privately owned. They are slowly fadeing away though. This mill in the pictures I have known since the mid 60s. This is what it looks like today. I can remember two of them being built. Oh, I looked at wiki to see what GLF stand for. Grange League Federation. I have one bulap feed bag that is original. Boy is this going back to when I was a kid.
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Billy NY

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• Mar 4, 2018

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Still have Agway stores in the area. Things have changed over the years, they used to deliver bulk fuel and carry a lot of other things. Loyal customers too, new TSC in '11 did not effect their business. High traffic corridor has a lot to do with it.

 

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hadley

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• Mar 4, 2018

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I am just curious. Anyone know where the name agway came from? I have heard a story but don't believe it.

 

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Pitch

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• Mar 4, 2018

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My father and I both worked at Agway. My father started in Owego when they were GLF. I worked in Geneva at the truss plant.

Agway was actually a fair Co-op. They then decided to branch out into insurance and financials neglecting the roots of the organization.

The joke when they were new was that it stood for All Gone Within A Year.

 

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GVSII

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• Mar 4, 2018

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The one here is still pretty busy but no where near as busy as it was as a GLF through the '50s.Business was thriving back then.No where near as many farms around now either.
There was a lot more than business going on at the GLF back then.
Lots of banter and back and forth among the farmers. I bet that the guys that remember that,miss it.

 

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Bret4207

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• Mar 5, 2018

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(quoted from post at 20:55:56 03/03/18) I ended up with a concussion when I was about eight years old. I jumped off the loading dock at our local Agway on to the truck tailgate. The door on the truck cap came up when I did. I ended up on the parking lot on my head. That Agway is long gone. There is still one in Heuvelton NY. I just bought a new pair of boots there. Alot of Amish left that shop there.

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Heuvelton Agway isn't Agway anymore, it's Heuvelton Farm and Homie Center/. I forget the specifics, but Agway is just a name now. Lotta locals lost a lot of money they had in Agway.

Used to be 10 or 12 Agway type stores between Hammond, Heuvelton, Gouverneur. Now there are what? 3? Too bad the people that bought out Larry and Mary Ellen up Hammond didn't hang on another year or two, the Amish influx to the area would have kept them going.

 

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W_B

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• Mar 5, 2018

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Our local United Landmark has eliminated just about all small retail products, their focus now is the mid to large size farmer with fertilizer, oil and lubricants, propane and farm services. We got our feed and wood shavings (for bedding) and some supplies for over 20 yrs. from them and they dropped all that. The manager who is also a neighbor said that her bosses claim that Rural King was coming to Lancaster so they didn't need to be in that type of business. There is no plans for an RK that anyone else has heard of, so that was a poor excuse. We now go to an old fashioned mill elevator business nearby that wants the small farms and they stock all that we need and they still grind and sell all sorts of feeds.