Posted on 06/28/2024 3:25:44 PM PDT by PROCON
Tractor Supply, a retail chain that sells home improvement equipment, livestock and agricultural supplies for farmers and pet owners, is eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion roles; withdrawing carbon emission goals; and walking back support for the LGBTQ community as part of sweeping changes to environmental, social and governance initiatives, the company announced this week.
The retailer said in a Thursday release that it will no longer submit data to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group. The company will also stop sponsoring Pride festivals and voting campaigns, the release said. The company previously earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2022 Best Places to Work Corporate Equality Index.
The announcement comes in the final days of Pride Month.
Tractor Supply is also retiring initiatives aimed at reducing environmental impact and improving employee diversity. The company had set goals to achieve net zero carbon emissions in operations by 2040 and to reduce its water usage by 2025. Its DEI targets included boosting the number of employees of color at the manager level and above by 50% by 2026.
Tractor Supply said it’s making the changes to better represent the values of the communities and customers it serves. The retailer caters to largely rural communities, with 50,000 employees across 2,250 stores in 49 states, according to company data.
“Rural communities are the backbone of our nation and what make America great,” Tractor Supply said in the news release. “We have heard from customers that we have disappointed them. We have taken this feedback to heart.”
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Who cares what the Human Right's Campaign demands of you, your company goal is to serve your customer base.
Cut out all the dead weight
If Tracto Supply does not fire the employees behind this then they are lying to our faces.
I spend $ at that BIG CORP. I was going to switch to smaller independents for my animal feed supplies. This is good news. TSC will still loose some of my business. Economic POWER!
That's good news!
Tranny Supply....No thanks!
Not unlike bud lite dropping what's his name in a dress after millions of us were so offended that we dropped the entire brand (for ever and ever.)
Don’t care. I’m going to stop shopping there unless necessary.
The fact that they had to go through this exercise is reason enough to avoid them.
For some reason, it reminds me of Newt sitting on the couch with Pelosi. He never explained why he did it. “It was stupid” and “I regret doing it,” while undoubtedly true, do not answer the question of why. Why did TSC go down this road in the first place? Same question for Bud Light.
I wonder if this is because of the Supreme Court decision that Federal agencies cannot make law anymore; that maybe these corporations were forced to due this due to some goverment agencies “laws.”
I can tell you what happened. Tractor Supply hired a consultant and the board sat through a slick Power Point presentation telling them how much DEI would improve their image. Quite likely this was done at a weeklong golf outing at a nice resort. Also, the board are probably college educated business types who have been fed a similar line all through school, so it sounded “right.” These outings are not going to have any counterpoint presentations. Though, they must be living under a rock if they hadn’t taken a lesson from Bud Lite.
They were catering to Blackrock.
I agree.
You should find a feed mill if you are doing anything beyond “hobby”. The price is about half. You do, at least at ours, have to bring your own bags and buy in bulk but it is worth it.
It’s just more made in China crap anyhow.
Good for them.
I wasn’t shopping at Tractor Supply anyway. I try to avoid catching gonorrhea.
“Don’t care. I’m going to stop shopping there unless necessary.”
Agreed.
they charge to much!
Traitor Supply
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