The news
Tractor Supply has opened an 865,000-square-foot distribution center in Nampa, Idaho, its eleventh and first equipped with an automated storage and retrieval system, reported Supply Chain Dive.
The company invested over $200 million in the site, which began receiving inventory in August and was scheduled to start shipping to stores in October.
The center has 80 truck docks and will serve 123 stores across nine states in its first year. Tractor Supply expects it to support 200 stores at full capacity.
The details
Automation will handle storage and product movement inside the building. The Knapp system and automated conveyors store, sequence and move products through the facility. Tractor Supply has also established a dedicated AI innovation team at the site to develop applications for its operations.
The center is expected to employ about 500 people full time.
The site has additional acreage for future expansion.
Nampa gives Tractor Supply its first distribution center in the Pacific Northwest. It is about 780 miles from the company's next-closest DC in Casa Grande, Arizona. At the end of 2025, Tractor Supply had 70 stores across Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Washington.
The company’s other 10 distribution centers are in Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Ohio and Texas.
The 10 DCs total about 7.8 million square feet, according to its annual report. Nampa adds roughly 11% to that footprint.
About 81% of the merchandise Tractor Supply stores received in 2025 came through its DCs. Vendors shipped the rest directly.
The new facility adds capacity as Tractor Supply expands its store network. The company had 2,621 stores in 49 states as of September 26, including 2,486 Tractor Supply locations and 135 Petsense stores, its latest quarterly filing shows.
Tractor Supply opened 28 stores in the second quarter.
It spent $651.6 million on capital projects in the first nine months of the year, up from $629.2 million in the same period a year earlier.
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