The National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO Tuesday to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts.
The resignation demand emerged as Tractor Supply, which sells products ranging from farming equipment to pet supplies, faces a deepening backlash over its decision, which itself came after conservative activists spoke out against the company’s work to be more socially inclusive and to curb climate change.
In a public announcement last week, the company said it would eliminate all of its diversity, equity and inclusion roles, end sponsorships of “nonbusiness activities” like Pride festivals, and withdraw its goals for reducing carbon emissions. Critics of the new position argue that Tractor Supply is giving in to hate and harming its customers by abandoning crucial principles.
You can decide this move with two answers: Who are their customers, and what happened last year with Bud Light.
Just so y’all are aware they moved to Yuengling beer as the choice of racists and bigoted people. So please don’t buy it unless you really really don’t give a fuck about CEOs mocking boycotts.
Dang, now we can’t make jokes about Anakin killing all the Yuenglings
Seriously? Yuengling, is that Chinese beer?
They could have just as easily dropped the DEI efforts and then not made a giant fucking Press Release about it.
Then they wouldn’t be pandering to the bigots.
It’s so easy to shop somewhere else, might as well.
In many rural areas it’s not though. Tractor Supply might be the only feed store for miles, and I don’t mean go 5 miles to the next town. I mean it’s over a hundred to the next closest feed store, which happens to be another tractor supply.
Sounds like a good time to break their monopoly
Cool. Who plans to do that? Do you have the ability to open multiple stores in such areas?
Maybe they do, why so negative? Do you think breaking some hypothetical monopoly would be a bad thing or something? Is your last name Supply by chance?
Maybe they do, but they haven’t done it, have they? I know I can’t do it. Can you? It’s not ‘negative’ to know that it hasn’t been done and no one is doing it. It’s just a fact.
Is that your situation? I live pretty rural, but there’s a Walmart, Lowe’s, or home depot pretty much the same distance as tractor supply, and that’s probably the situation for most of the US. I also buy online. Mom and pop feed stores are all over the place.
For me, it’s real easy to go somewhere else.
Thinking about this more, I just don’t think it’s true. I can’t find a spot on Google maps where tractor supply is the only store for miles. In America, you can drive to many shitty corporations to buy stuff, no matter where in America you are.
Good. Fuck DEI
Why? Why do you think that?
Just a troll. Don’t take the bait.
Yeah! Get back to only white men in charge like God commands it!
You’re a national treasure, Squid.
except the part where he actively hates accessibility tools that don’t affect him at all.
What did Dale Earnhardt, Inc. ever do to you?
Its stupid but its the only culture america has except fucking chickens.
What culture do you have?
Based on their post history, they’re American too. So if you have any chickens, I’d keep them locked up.
Edgelords gonna edge
I’m edging right now!
oh, wait. wrong thread.
