BY MILES LAYTON
EDENTON — Though there wasn’t a lot of information available when Tractor Supply erected a big sign at the shopping complex on North Broad Street, the Albemarle Observer kept its eyes and ears open for news for the store opening a new location in Edenton.
Recently, the company posted job descriptions for five positions on its website – 2 Team Leads, a Receiver, Team Member and Team Member/Fast. See a partial portion of each job below. Means if Tractor Supply is hiring, listing Edenton as the location, that’s good news.
For folks that don’t know, Tractor Supply sells home improvement, agriculture, lawn and garden maintenance, livestock stuff, pet care equipment, and supplies. The store is a breath of fresh air for farmers and other folks on so many different levels.
The company is looking for two Team Leaders. According to the job description, a Team Leader is responsible for assisting the Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager with the execution of operational, sales, and merchandising objectives by delivering a legendary customer experience. The Team Leader is also responsible for promoting a safe and productive work environment for all Team Members, customers, and vendors, as well as training Team Members on the appropriate application of policies and procedures.
The TM Receiver is responsible for maintaining inventory accuracy to keep inventory shortages at or below store goals and maximize stores sales by receiving and shipping freight within a timely manner. The TM Receiver is responsible for interacting with customers and Team Members, supporting selling initiatives, and performing assigned tasks, while delivering a legendary customer cxperience.
The Field Activity Support Team (FAST) Team Member is responsible for traveling to stores within an assigned district to own and execute “start to finish” variable tasks such as planograms, as well as provide support for other tasks including merchandise and fixture assembly, and the maintenance of all signage.
The Team Member is responsible for interacting with customers and team members, supporting selling initiatives and performing assigned tasks, while delivering a legendary customer experience.
Flashback from a former story – that commercial space, formerly where Food Lion was located in the shopping complex on North Broad Street, has been vacant for a several years. Despite Food Lion moving to its new location on Virginia Road in the spring of 2016, the company continued to lease that 32,000+ square feet of space on North Broad Street until late 2020 when it decided not to renew its lease option. Though I’m not going to publish the figure, I remember the dollar amount that Food Lion paid for the rented space for years after it moved – wasn’t cheap.
And from what I remember reporting on the matter, the property needed roof repairs and some work done – stuff you can’t do with WD-40 and duct tape.
A couple of years ago in 2023, an Arkansas bank, Today’s Bank of Fayetteville, invested $2.8 million to fix the shopping center’s roof and make other renovations to put the property on the market for commercial use, possibly a second grocery store — maybe one that doesn’t find it hard to keep Butter Pecan ice cream on the shelf so that you don’t have to drive to Hertford’s Food Lion instead after church on Sunday.
Town of Edenton has been searching high and low to land a business in that location. There have been many suitors for that site over the years, so much so that the search for and rumors of possible tenants have been fodder on local social media for years.
Last note, yes, there are rumors about Bojangles coming to town, but the Albemarle Observer hasn’t been able to confirm anything solid on that.
2 responses to “Join the Team at Tractor Supply in Edenton: Positions Available”
Miles, missing church on Sunday for ice cream is the reason you dropped an “n” in your headline, I suppose.
Fixed — yep — I hit send too fast — thx