It is a simple fact that places like Tractor Supply, Orscheln's, Rural King, etc don't exist to provide a service. They, like most companies, exist to make a profit. If they can provide a service at the same time then that is nice but first-and-foremost a profit must be made. A retail-sale business model specifically catering to full-time farmers would struggle to be successful since there just aren't many of those folks out there any more - barely over 1% of the US population. However, there are large numbers of hobby farmers and other rural folks who provide a sustainable customer base to keep places like this profitable. So, naturally the stores will stock what their primary customer base wants to buy and thus makes them a profit. Tying up working capital and wasting shelf space on slow-moving, specialty items that only a small percentage of the customer base might be interested in just doesn't make good business sense. A lot of these stores started out catering to full-time farmers but that was many years ago when there was enough "big" farmers around to make it work. Over time the number of full-time farmers has decreased but the number of small and hobby farmers has actually gone up. These stores have just adjusted their business models to keep up with the times and remain profitable but it seems that they catch a lot of flak on these forums for doing so. Holding tightly to an obsolete business model is a company signing their own death certificate - Sears is a classic example.
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