The customers of a National Agricultural Products store are trying to find out if they will have to start looking for a new place to buy.
Peavey Mart, with headquarters in Deer, high, had previously announced the closure of locations in Ontario and Nueva Scotia as part of what he referred to in a press release as an “organizational restructuring.”
He said that closing some of his stores will help optimize his retail footprint by reallocating resources to markets with a stronger performance while adding low performance locations.
However, this publication has disappeared from its website and the individual managers of stores in other parts of the country have shared information that indicate that they will also be closed, which leads to speculate that the entire retail chain could be happening.
The searches for “Peavey Mart” are trend in all Canada, according to the Google online board and local Facebook and Reddit groups in western Canada are full of discussion and speculation about the store’s future, although Additional closures have not been officially confirmed.
CBC News has contacted the company to obtain clarifications, but has not had news.
Look | A corporate history of Peavey Mart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qceyh5-r4i8
The company, which is marketed as a “farm and ranch” retailer, tracks its history until 1967 when it was known as National Farmway. His first retail location was in Dawson Creek, BC, and during the decades, it spread throughout the country.
Although it was briefly property of the Peavey company of Minneapolis, it returned to the Canadian property in 1984 and says that it is “100 percent of Canadian and operated property.”
Chain fans say that it provides a service for people in rural communities that are not found in other large -box retailers selling products such as agricultural equipment and horsepower.
“It was a place to go and get some things you need quickly,” said Crispin Colvin, area director of the Ontario Agriculture Federation, to CBC News last week after the announcement of closures in that province.
“They are really a useful store. It is unfortunate because now people will have to drive farther to get things, which adds to cost.”
Colvin said that while online retail trade has changed the farm supplies market, many other farmers like to see merchandise in person before buying.
“Whether it is a feed bag or whatever, I prefer to enter and take a look to see what the options are,” he said. “Online it gives you a photo, but there is a lot to say to go to the store and see the product.”