Tractor Supply - EVERYTHING IS CHINESE!!

I hate to say it, but people want to buy things cheap. Quality has not been the top item for a while. As long as that holds true we will see more made it China items. I have purchased several things from TSC myself although the closest one is a little less than an hour away. I prefer dealing local when I can. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do though.

I just started selling JD planter parts and don't recall seeing anything from Japan yet, maybe the Sensors or something electronic? Its expensive to make stuff in Japan.  Bearings are mostly china but most of the larger parts, wheel halves, seed tubes, etc are USA made.  Unfotrunately USA made bearings and seals are becoming a rarity. Even Timken is making some stuff in China.

Edited by ACmowerguy - 22 Apr 2011 at 11:20pm

I have been working on my 7200 John Deere corn planter and every part that I have bought so far from John Deere has either been made in China or Japan.  Does not make me very happy! 

The problem with the increase in fuel prices here, is that most working people have to live within a budget. When fuel prices double within just a few years, and wages either go down or do not change, people have to make tough decisions, and not all of these folks waste money (gamble, etc.) for some its beyond their control.

I think Tricky D is talking like Mom does. She always says be thankful for what you have 'cause there is always someone worse off than you. Still doesn't make it right what the liberals are doing to us here.

Trickey I think the point he was trying to make is everything is alot closer in GB. Most of our food supply has to move cross ountry to get to the stores. We don't jump on a bike and peddle 30 miles into town to get provisions? Thats what I belive the point he was trying to make? Not sure?

Dave H wrote: Tricky Dickie wrote: ToddSin NY wrote: Price of EVERYTHING (except wages) has gone up. Price of fuel drives everything.   I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you guys lived in the UK you really would be able to grumble about fuel prices! Over here gasoline is the equivalent of $10 a gallon. When I was in the States recently, I couldn't believe how low your gas prices are - fantastic! I filled our hired Dodge Charger right to the brim from almost empty for £38 in our money - to fill my car here in the UK it costs me £140!!!!! Other USA prices are lower than in the UK too, particularly food. I reckon that you guys are really lucky - and your tax is lower too! Our government rapes us financially every time we so much as cough and then wastes the tax money on stupid social projects and on paying countless National Health Service beaurocrats and other such creatures to fiddle with sheets of paper all day! Sorry to rant, but there is still a lot that is good in the USA.   Tricky Dickie   I just have to shake my head when people compare fuel costs in the US to foreign country prices.  how big is England compared to the state of TX, I don't realy know but get my drift?

No, I don't get your drift! What has the size of Texas got to do with comparitive fuel prices? Let's face it, many Americans don't go so far from home very often anyway! Tricky Dickie

I sent the post to Blain's Farm and Fleet and TSC, will it matter I don't know.

Tricky Dickie wrote: ToddSin NY wrote: Price of EVERYTHING (except wages) has gone up. Price of fuel drives everything.   I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you guys lived in the UK you really would be able to grumble about fuel prices! Over here gasoline is the equivalent of $10 a gallon. When I was in the States recently, I couldn't believe how low your gas prices are - fantastic! I filled our hired Dodge Charger right to the brim from almost empty for £38 in our money - to fill my car here in the UK it costs me £140!!!!! Other USA prices are lower than in the UK too, particularly food. I reckon that you guys are really lucky - and your tax is lower too! Our government rapes us financially every time we so much as cough and then wastes the tax money on stupid social projects and on paying countless National Health Service beaurocrats and other such creatures to fiddle with sheets of paper all day! Sorry to rant, but there is still a lot that is good in the USA.   Tricky Dickie   I just have to shake my head when people compare fuel costs in the US to foreign country prices.  how big is England compared to the state of TX, I don't realy know but get my drift?

Edited by Dave H - 22 Apr 2011 at 8:08am

I stopped at the C-store and got coffee this morning and a guy pi$$ed and moaned about cost of gas to me and cashier and anybody around and then purchased $20 of lottery tickets,  I asked him if liked wasting 5 gallons of gas on the lottery.  He didn't like it but what an idiot. 

What I see at nearly all stores is things marked with a US flag on the package. Then I buy it thinking it's made in the USA but when I get it home I see made in CHina on the actual produce so I then look closer at the US flag on the package and notice right under the flag either it says "Proudly Sold in the USA" or assemble in the USA (I take that to mean packaged cause my Vice Grip itself say made in China right on it). Another thing I've noticed under the US flag at times is the words Made in the USA or China with the word China in much smaller print. Or another thing on some boots I was looking at it said assembled in the USA with global materials. What pray tell does that mean exactly?! How do you assemble a boot? Did they slide the sole into it and call it assembled? I'm just sick to death of the whole thing. I don't buy anything anymore that doesn't have made in the USA on it. Not sure what I'll do for a TV when ours go down but then I hardly watch it anyway. Sure as heck won't buy another cell phone now that they can be tracked by the gov and also turned on without you knowing it so it can be used as a listening device by the gov. That's true you know and gov documents say so. That's another subject all together.

ToddSin NY wrote: Price of EVERYTHING (except wages) has gone up. Price of fuel drives everything.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you guys lived in the UK you really would be able to grumble about fuel prices! Over here gasoline is the equivalent of $10 a gallon. When I was in the States recently, I couldn't believe how low your gas prices are - fantastic! I filled our hired Dodge Charger right to the brim from almost empty for £38 in our money - to fill my car here in the UK it costs me £140!!!!! Other USA prices are lower than in the UK too, particularly food. I reckon that you guys are really lucky - and your tax is lower too! Our government rapes us financially every time we so much as cough and then wastes the tax money on stupid social projects and on paying countless National Health Service beaurocrats and other such creatures to fiddle with sheets of paper all day! Sorry to rant, but there is still a lot that is good in the USA.

ya'll ever heard of...USA,japan?? that way they can honestly say, is made in the USA!  everything with the ACE name on it is made in china, bomgaars sells alot of ACE stuff, as do ACE hardware stores!

There are fewer TSC in Iowa than there used to be. Can't say I miss them.

Gerald J.

Price of EVERYTHING (except wages) has gone up. Price of fuel drives everything.