Peavey Mart Closing

[SomeGuy]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/people-are-pretty-upset-peavey-mart-store-closures-in-ontario-n-s-seen-as-a-loss-for-farm-owners-1.7438438

I best go stock up on bolts by the pound and get at least one of my C25 cylinders exchanged before they're gone. Not sure what that's going to mean long term for the welding gas I have

Locations closing this spring:

1. Arnprior, Ont.
2. Bedford, N.S.
3. Bowmanville, Ont.
4. Brockville, Ont.
5. Chatham, Ont.
6. Collingwood , Ont.
7. Cornwall, Ont.
8. Goderich, Ont.
9. Grimsby, Ont.
10. Kingston, Ont.
11. Kitchener, Ont.
12. Lambeth, Ont.
13. Mount Forest, Ont.
14. New Liskeard, Ont.
15. Sarnia, Ont.
16. Smiths Falls, Ont.
17. St. Catharines, Ont.
18. St. Jacobs, Ont.
19. St. Thomas, Ont.
20. Sudbury, Ont.
21. Woodstock, Ont.
22. Uxbridge, Ont.
23. Rockland, Ont.
24. Hyde Park (London), Ont.

 

[Tomc938]

This is sad.

 

[Susquatch]

As far as I know, it was originally Tractor Supply, then The Country Store, then TSC, then Peavey Mart. How a name like Peavey Mart could attract customers was beyond me. But I liked the place for what it was and the things they carried so the name didn't matter.

 

[gerritv]

Bummer.
I paid for a Q80CF argon/co2 tank from the Grimsby store in 2021. Still have the recipt of course.

Any advice:
What do I do, bring it back and get refund or is it mine to deal with getting it refilled sometime in the future? I still want to have gas for the wire feed welder so would have to source elsewhere to replace. It helps so much in making my welds somewhat acceptable in appearance.

gerrit

 

[TorontoBuilder]

As far as I know, it was originally Tractor Supply, then The Country Store, then TSC, then Peavey Mart. How a name like Peavey Mart could attract customers was beyond me. But I liked the place for what it was and the things they carried so the name didn't matter.

typical of US chain store entry into Canada, TSC over expansion then mandated contraction and sell off. Peavey Mart was stupid for buying up a product that clearly was not profiting sufficiently to support the number of retail outlets.

Sad, It seemed to me that much of the over expansion was during the rise of online retailing so even more puzzling to me. Peavey should focus on customer retention based on free fast delivery from existing distribution centers

 

[Brent H]

Check the bottle, it will say who it is from. I have a bottle from TSC and it is from Praxair - I will take it there when it is empty

 

[Downwindtracker2]

One fall hunting trip, it was extreme windy, my tin airtight in the walltent wouldn't draw. So it was off to Peavey Mart for a cap and couple stove pipe lengths. I took my hunting partner along, a farmer( Black Angus) from Vancouver Island, he was amazed . It's been Peavey Mart since the early '80s when I first shopped there. Dawson Creek, B.C.

 

[Susquatch]

Seems it's quite a twisted story. Apparently,

Tractor Supply was started in 1938 - as a mail order company.

The first Peavey Mart opened in Dawson Creek, BC in 1967. In 1982, ConAgra acquired Peavey Mart, but management bought it back in 1984

In 2017, Peavey Industries LP acquired TSC Stores, which was based in London, Ontario

Hence the name change from TSC to Peavey Mart.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Seems it's quite a twisted story. Apparently,

Tractor Supply was started in 1938 - as a mail order company.

The first Peavey Mart opened in Dawson Creek, BC in 1967. In 1982, ConAgra acquired Peavey Mart, but management bought it back in 1984

In 2017, Peavey Industries LP acquired TSC Stores, which was based in London, Ontario

Hence the name change from TSC to Peavey Mart.

except they only acquired the Canada TSC stores. The parent company is fine in US

 

[Lucky7]

Wpg had 80 cu ft argon and argon/C02 bottles as owner exchange until Peavey stopped offering this. Now the remaining businesses, including the one that supplied Peavey will only do 40’s and in one case 55’s. Hope that doesn’t happen with Peavey closures elsewhere. Annoying to those who don’t use enough gas to justify a rental contract.

 

[SomeGuy]

Bummer.
I paid for a Q80CF argon/co2 tank from the Grimsby store in 2021. Still have the recipt of course.

Any advice:
What do I do, bring it back and get refund or is it mine to deal with getting it refilled sometime in the future? I still want to have gas for the wire feed welder so would have to source elsewhere to replace. It helps so much in making my welds somewhat acceptable in appearance.

gerrit

Wpg had 80 cu ft argon and argon/C02 bottles as owner exchange until Peavey stopped offering this. Now the remaining businesses, including the one that supplied Peavey will only do 40’s and in one case 55’s. Hope that doesn’t happen with Peavey closures elsewhere. Annoying to those who don’t use enough gas to justify a rental contract.

Something I'm going to have to sort out over the next month, I have three Q tanks - one with C25, one with Argon, one with Oxygen that are all TSC Praxair ones. I also have an LD? or slightly smaller tank that I got for a song with a used TIG kit for my multimatic 215 that has argon that I've never had to fill.

Praxair is now Linde here, so I'm hoping they just take over the bottle swapping directly, there's still locations for that. Otherwise, see if I can find all the receipts (I know I have them somewhere) and will return all the bottles before the place is closed maybe? Though that will cost me the gas in each one of them and my Argon and Oxygen are both fairly full.

Not an ideal situation. Apparently Stratford is staying open, so that might also be the option if I go for a little drive and they can keep doing cylinders there.

 

[slow-poke]

How do the bolts by the pound prices compare to say home depot?

 

[SomeGuy]

How do the bolts by the pound prices compare to say home depot?

Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy cheaper.

I think regular price is somewhere around $4.99/lb, can usually get them on sale for $3.99/lb.

Typical zinc plated 1/4-20 3 inch bolts in grade 5 at home depot are 82 cents each....so you could get 5 of them for $3.99 roughly. In comparison, a pound of those bolts is around 23 of them (I just went and weighed a pound worth on an accurate scale)...so 4-5 times cheaper.