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Bomgaars Supply Inc. (doing business as Bomgaars and stylized as bomgaars) is a retail chain of farm and ranch supply stores headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa.Bomgaars serves the Midwest, High Plains, and Rockies with stores in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Texas.
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The Topeka store was one of 73 the FTC said Tractor Supply could not own due to anti-trust concerns. Transition to new store could take 15 months. Topeka's Orscheln Farm store now a Bomgaars location
W.C. Orscheln opened the first Orscheln Farm & Home store in Sedalia, Missouri, in 1960. [1] Jerry Orscheln took over the business in the mid-1960s. [2] The company operates a distribution center in Moberly, Missouri. In January 2015, it acquired a distribution center in Abilene, Kansas, formerly used by the defunct ALCO Stores retail chain. [3]
Duckwall's variety store photographed in Brush, Colorado, in 1991. In its early years the company operated five and dime (or "variety") stores called Duckwall's. Duckwall's began their foray into the discount retail business with the opening of the first ALCO store in Clovis, New Mexico, on August 15, 1966. ALCO stores (somewhat smaller than a ...
In order to mitigate federal anti-trust concerns, Tractor Supply sold 73 Orscheln stores and the Orscheln distribution center in Moberly, Missouri, to Bomgaars; 12 stores were sold to Missouri-based farm store chain Buchheit. [24] As of late 2024, Tractor Supply had 2,216 locations with a target of 3,000.
The chain's demise was finalized in 2004 when the last Big Bear store closed its doors, following Penn Traffic's second Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a decade. Better store locations were acquired and reopened as Giant Eagle or Kroger stores; as of May 2014, many former Big Bear stores (especially in Ohio and West Virginia) remain empty.
The center now has restaurants, bars, banks, an urgent care facility, hardware store, sporting goods store, video game store, pet supply store, Goodwill, a Giant Eagle Market District, and more. In January 2015, Macy's announced that the company was closing three Ohio stores, including the Kingsdale location, by the end of March. [ 5 ]