JWA

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Went to TSC to get a hydraulic filter for my 2810. After searching I asked a worker where the
hydraulic filters were located, he looked at me like I had 2 heads. They do not carry them in the
store but you can order on line for pick-up at the store. Why would I do that when I can order from
Amazon or Ebay and they will deliver it to my door in 3-4 days and I don have to make another 30 mile
round trip. Stopped at O'riellys on the way home got the same story. And businesses wonder why people
shop on line. And these 2 are my only options within 15 miles.
Just had to vent a little.
 
(quoted from post at 12:21:34 10/14/18) Went to TSC to get a hydraulic filter for my 2810. After searching I asked a worker where the
hydraulic filters were located, he looked at me like I had 2 heads. They do not carry them in the
store but you can order on line for pick-up at the store. Why would I do that when I can order from
Amazon or Ebay and they will deliver it to my door in 3-4 days and I don have to make another 30 mile
round trip. Stopped at O'riellys on the way home got the same story. And businesses wonder why people
shop on line. And these 2 are my only options within 15 miles.
Just had to vent a little.

Thing is store space cost money. And in your area if they only sell one or 2 of those filters a year, well they most likely are not going to stock them. Not when they can have em in a day or 2. Plus if you are one of those people who only shop in that place 1-2 times a year what's the loss? Doesn't pay to carry and item if you have to charge enough to make a profit the customer gets angry or you have to sell at a price where you lose money.

We had a guy here try that. Absolutely convinced that he had to please every customer. His business fail this past Jan and in Feb he suck started a pistol......

Rick
 
Is it reasonable to think that a non brand specific retailer like TSC or an auto parts store should keep parts on hand for everybody's particular tractor? Not even a branded dealership does that for their own color because it is too expensive to maintain a large inventory when most of it will just sit on the shelf gathering dust. The retailers know this and that is why they encourage you to shop on-line from their websites and pick it up at the store. Even if they lose customers to Amazon and eBay it is still less of a loss than what sitting on huge inventories of slow-moving items in their brick-and-mortar stores would be.
 
The TSC stores around here carry primarily clothing, oil, chain saws and mowers. Wouldn't be where I'd look for filters.
 
Ya'll are missing my point, I find it ironic that a place named Tractor Supply Co. doesn't stock a generic hydraulic filter.
As to Old Tankers comment, as I said I have 2 options TSC and O'Reilly's. I purchase my sweet feed, chicken feed and pet feed as well as motor oil and lubricants, nuts,bolts and misc.hardware from this store, just yesterday purchased 10 gals. hydraulic oil. Most of the employees recognize me and some call me by name so I don't consider myself a 1 or 2 time a year customer.
 
Advanced auto carries the filters I use. Most of the other auto places can usually get them the next day. I try to have spare filters for everything.
 
I'm not missing your point I don't necessarily agree with your reasoning. TSC sells the same stuff as Orschelns, Atwoods, Rural King, Big R, or any other stores of this genre but maybe because of the name people expect something different. 70 or 80 years ago when this company started it was in fact a "tractor supply company" but the farm equipment industry was completely different then and stocking parts would have been a much more feasible thing to do. (As an example, there where about six different models of John Deere tractor in existence when TSC started. How many would there be today?) With only a few exceptions (filters not being one of them) there aren't many "generic" tractor parts so it isn't worth even trying to guess what the customers will need. As times changed the company shifted their focus to more practical and more profitable products like those you mention buying there but has still kept the same name.
 

Even though they call themselves Tractor Supply Company it would not occur to me to go there or to O'Reileys for a hydraulic filter. I bet the people in the store had a good laugh about you, LOL
 
I call it Tuff S@$t Charlie's! I went there last night for rabbit food....out,be in on Wednesday's truck. Road trip to rural king today,had at least 50 bags.
 
(quoted from post at 13:30:06 10/14/18) Ya'll are missing my point, I find it ironic that a place named Tractor Supply Co. doesn't stock a generic hydraulic filter.
As to Old Tankers comment, as I said I have 2 options TSC and O'Reilly's. I purchase my sweet feed, chicken feed and pet feed as well as motor oil and lubricants, nuts,bolts and misc.hardware from this store, just yesterday purchased 10 gals. hydraulic oil. Most of the employees recognize me and some call me by name so I don't consider myself a 1 or 2 time a year customer.

LOL man, don't matter. TSC/Fleet Farm all of them have had to change their business models to stay in business. That means carrying stuff in stock that regularly sells and stuf that doesn't sell can be ordered.

Heck way back when......late 70's almost all farm stores catered to the farmer because there were enough farmers to keep them in business. Today there has been such a huge decrease in the number of farmers that farm stores just can't cater to farmers. They have to go after the burbs and folks who live in rural areas.

I'm guessing that the 2810 is a Ford? Bet there ain't a whole of of them out there. I'll bet that TSC nation wide only sells a couple of hundred of those a year.

Sure these places have kept their names, but they changed over the years to keep the doors open.

Wife and I were just in Fleet Farm today. The sporting goods section takes up about what would have been total floor space when they catered to farmers. Back when even the clothing and shoes were designed as work clothing.

Rick
 
Don?t feel bad cnh fiat doesn?t stock filters for about 90 percent of their equipment either and they?re the dealer
 

It's enough to cause one to cuss then lay down cry when out shopping. Why I remember when you could buy every thing from bag balm to baby chicks at Sears and mule harness at Montgomery Wards. If everyone sully up and stood their ground,those days would return and all this fancy dancey online stuff would dry up and blow away. Wonder if it would help to march on the White House?
 
Customers dictate what stores carry by what and how many of an item they buy.When was the last time you bought Mule harness? TSC sells Mule Halters, chicks and Bag Balm BTW.So go on down and stock up tomorrow.
 
It's like when I go to my local NAPA store and always hear"I can have it tomorrow". If I needed it tomorrow, I would have ordered it online.
 
JWA, FORD got out of the tractor biz some years ago, pawned it off on FIAT.

You can look up parts for your tractor at the official FIAT parts site, https://partstore.agriculture.newholland.com/us/parts-search.html#epc::model_find.

Once you have a part number, you can patronize your local FIAT dealer, or cross it on the WIX filters website or (hopefully) your favorite local auto parts store can help you out.

Just say'in, TSC = horsey feed, baby chicks, and rabbit hutches. Oh, yeah, and doggy chew toys.

SADLY, NOT the place to go for "tractor" parts anymore.
 
Titan lets their stores have enough autonomy that our local one buys a couple truck loads of Fleetguard filters a year. If it's a half-common filter, they probably have it. Parts guy pulls his phone out, punches in 90 Isuzu amigo, puts the number in the computer, yup, How many you need, we got a dozen?
 
(quoted from post at 17:56:34 10/14/18)
It's enough to cause one to cuss then lay down cry when out shopping. Why I remember when you could buy every thing from bag balm to baby chicks at Sears and mule harness at Montgomery Wards. If everyone sully up and stood their ground,those days would return and all this fancy dancey online stuff would dry up and blow away. Wonder if it would help to march on the White House?


:lol: Now that's a good one. Our county seat just lost the Target store. Mayor led protests and such to get me to stay........he had about as much luck as you are with that plan! Stores, especially chain stores, really only listen to paying customers.

Rick
 
Must be the part of the country you are in. I've got 2 tsc close to me, all kinds of filters, best price on hyd oil too.
 

I get my filters including hydro at my local independent Mom and Pop store. They carry Wix and if it is not in stock they can usually have it for me by the PM. I support local, so I am not supporting China. I have yet to set foot in the local O'Rieley's.
 
Me too. I realize that it's hard for a single brick and mortar to stock everything as compared to the availability of the internet. The other thing is that my 2011 Silverado just rolled 38k miles. Just don't drive much anymore unless I have to and going to town is a pain.
 
I went to our local TSC and Rural King and neither had an inner tube to fit a 6.00x16 front tractor tire. Guy at TSC said, "You'd think since our name is tractor supply, we'd supply tractor stuff instead of Yuppie stuff". I sure had to agree with him. If it isn't for a horse, dog or cat forget it and just order on line. Keith
 
Yawn. Same old lame argument.

Tractor Supply was going broke selling tractor parts because by the early 1980's 90% of the market for that stuff had dried up. You didn't have 8 little farms on every 1-mile stretch of road, each with a couple of simple tractors that they could repair and maintain in the driveway.

Someone took the brand and turned it into a successful, profitable business servicing the growing "wannabe rural" market. Can't fault them for that.
 
(quoted from post at 20:18:13 10/14/18) You're right it'd probably take a store larger than the average TSC to stock just filters to fit all the tractor models built in the last 25 years.

On the other hand, why do we need 25 different filters to fit 25 tractors?
 

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