Posted by Leroy on February 08, 2012 at 07:03:13 from (69.88.223.179):
In Reply to: CT Farm and Country posted by ihmanky on February 07, 2012 at 21:20:32:
I know a bit about that as my wife was hired on to manage after a short training time and completion of paper work to manage a store, probably in Georga where they had her go to help hire and set up several stores just 2 weeks after she was with the company. We are from Ohio. Befor the paperwork was completed the so called merger, actually CT bought out by Quality Farm And Fleet out of Michigan ( a smaller chain)was underway that idea was droped. If everything would have gone as planed we would be in Georga now instead of here in my family home of 140 years. She stayed on as an assistant manager first in a CT store 50 mile from home and when she got the chance to transfer to a Quality store 7 mile from home she did. That is after their troubles started but before anybody outside the company new anything was going on. Was not long till they spun of the tractor parts business so it could be kept in operation as they knew the company was going under. When they did go under the bankruptcy judge in his questionable wisdome decided that Tractor Supply Company (TSC) was a better sale for the creditors even thow he new they just wanted it to shut it down so they did not have the competion at a few thousand dollars more than the orignal owners of CT could come up with to keep the place up and running. I did know how much TSC paid over what the CT orignal owners could bid and the difference to the creditors for shutting down the store would not have equaled a weeks payroll. TSC could do what ever they wanted with every store in the chain, some they shut down, others they moved existing TSC stores to and others they set up new TSC stores in. By spinning off the parts division when they did they were able to keep it out of the bankruptcy. She knew they were going under 6 months after joining the company. Their hiring manager drove 200 mile and got a motel room to stay in so they could interview her after she closed the store she was working at and that was at 9:30 at night because it was the only time they could get together and she was hired by CT 2 days after they recieved her application. Within the first year they were so far gone she got an application from the company she is curently working at and filled it out but just did not turn it in and waited 6 months till she got it out and just changed the date and turned it in and 2 days later she was hired.That was 6 months before CT-QF closed the doors and the ones that did not move and stayed lost everything. It has been 10 years since CT-QF closed their doors as she has been at the new job 10 years last summer. For some of you Indiana & Ill guys you should reconize the name of the store she left to go to CT, it was Alco and Duckwall was the smaller stores owned by that chain, owned by Alfonce Duckwall. 3 Alco stores in Ohio yet. She is now employed by Lowe's and is head of pluming and electrical and is always dooing what you guys do and complain about the help not doing their job and helping the customer or even showing up for work. And when they try to hire they cannot find any body qualified or if qualified then they cannot pass the drug screen. So over the years she has sold everything from paint to tractor tires to plow shares to refrigerators to tools to hardware to cloths to food and all kind of appliances. She is what a lot of you guys would like to see in your store, and curently working under her is a licened plummer and a commercial electrician (lady at 50?) so she has the expert help you need but they cannot be there all the time. I have not heard anything about this new catalog.
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