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The largest rural lifestyle retailer in the US is about to get a little more urban.
Tractor Supply has just announced up to 90 new locations are coming to the US next year. After closing 75 Petsense locations — a pet store within the company’s portfolio — the 85-year-old supplier said in its latest earnings call it’s the right time to expand.
“We continue to see attractive economics from new stores. That has not changed. As discussed last quarter, we expect to moderate new store openings in 2027 to approximately 85 to 90 stores,” said Kurt Barton, CFO of Tractor Supply Company.
The new stores won’t meet its initial target of 100 locations, as the Tennessee-based chain explained priorities have shifted. Tractor Supply will instead be launching locations with a much larger square footage than existing stores.
Jason Miller — real estate acquisition and development expert — said in a Substack post that as of today, the standard new construction for its prototype building sits at about 22,000 square feet.
Miller revealed many of its new and recently-opened stores are in “2nd generation” real estate — as each was previously occupied by other retailers.
“For instance, [about] a fourth of the Company’s Q1 2026 new store openings were repurposed Big Lots sites that resulted from Tractor Supply’s acquisition of 19 of the bankrupt retailer’s leases in May 2025.”
This includes a location in Lakeland, Fl. that stood at nearly 40,000 square feet — roughly twice the size of a standard Tractor Supply location.
The popular brand is also testing out new offerings. Tractor Supply will grow its garden center and outdoor supplies section in the coming year.
“We’ve also decided to move toward a more flexible seasonal garden center format that requires less capital while capturing the most productive selling periods,” Barton said in the earnings call. “In addition, we intend to expand the outdoor recreation and wildlife supplies program to a meaningful number of our stores by the end of next year.”
The self-described “inventors of the do-it-yourself trend” are also promising to step up its game in the digital world. Barton revealed the company will expand its digital delivery and final mile to improve bulky orders — like chicken coops and fencing materials.
The final mile program will eventually make up about 95% of the large-item orders itself by 2030.
The move also aims to upgrade its “Buy Online, Pick Up In Store” (BOPIS) fulfillment and curbside pickup as roughly 80% of its online orders are picked up in store, according to popular e-commerce blog Noibu.
The addition of 85 to 90 new stores would bring its fleet to nearly 2,600, as the location count currently sits at about 2,500.
