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?
Lmao, people asking that gets me every time. Wild name that I don’t know why they named it that, but it’s actually America’s oldest brewery, it’s on the east coast.
It’s named after the founder, who was a German immigrant named Jungling.
Immigrant names were often spelled how they sound by barely literate immigration agents.
So Jungling is pronounced Yewng-ling and became Yuengling.
The current CEO (Dick Yuengling Jr) is a nepo baby piece of shit Trump lover.
Correct. He’s a giant piece of shit and his sales have only gone up since Trump was elected.
And for those wondering, it’s just a very slightly better version of Bud and only then if it’s really fresh. After two weeks on the shelf they’re equally shitty.
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.
Most of the programs exist to avoid lawsuits. They don’t actually help much of anything. And before people jump down my throat I’m not against the idea of what DEI claims to fix in corporate America. I just know from the level I’ve worked at multiple companies that leadership doesn’t really care. DEI is another box to check for the shareholders to feel good about themselves.
So tl;dr DEI is mostly pointless. Leadership allows people to talk about DEI because talk is cheap and ineffectual. But they shit their pants of we try to unionize and force change. So stop focusing on DEI and start focusing on unionization.
What did Dale Earnhardt, Inc. ever do to you?
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.
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.
