Tractor Supply Company (TSCO)
Farm and ranch stores, 52,000 team members. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 34 of the 75 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
26%
Employees, annual report
52,000
Leading staffing pattern
Lawn and Garden Equipment and Supplies Retailers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202725%
- End of 202826%
- End of 203026%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 73%
- Becomes checking a model's work 15%
- Handed over with lighter checks 11%
The filing states full-time and part-time counts, summed under rule 2, and nothing by location, so stores and distribution take their shares by description (c), said so.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 25% at the end of 2027, 26% at the end of 2028, 26% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 26% desk work, 21% people work and 53% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 73% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 15% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
52,000 employees as of December 27, 2025 (sum of stated parts). Not stated; a U.S. store chain with no count by country in the filing.
The filing: “As of December 27, 2025, we employed approximately 26,000 full-time and 26,000 part-time team members and use contractors on an as-needed basis.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Lawn and Garden Equipment and Supplies Retailers | 90% | Farm and ranch supply stores, which BLS counts with lawn, garden and farm supply retailers, with the Petsense stores and the store support center inside under rule 6; no count by location kind, so by description (c). |
| Warehousing and Storage | 10% | The distribution centers that supply the stores; no count, so by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 26,000 full-time and 26,000 part-time team members, with more part-time hiring in high sales periods and contractors as needed; no collective bargaining agreements; district managers average about ten years' tenure and store managers seven.
What the filing says about AI
9 sentences in the filing name AI. Nine sentences: data analytics, computer vision and the responsible use of AI among the technologies invested in for customers and team members, and governance standards for AI.
- “We continue to invest in technologies that enhance both customer and team member experiences, including data analytics, automation, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence.”
- “We also invest in information technology and implement and assess capabilities such as computer vision, automation, advanced analytics, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence.”
- “We continue to adapt to evolving industry privacy laws and standards, as well as governance standards related to artificial intelligence.”
- “Through our continued information technology enhancements, including the use of artificial intelligence, we believe we are able to provide an improved overall shopping environment and a Digital experience that empowers our customers to shop and interact with us from computers, tablets, smart phones, and other mobile communication devices.”
- “Disruptions, failures, or other performance issues with these customer-facing technology systems, including any artificial intelligence or machine learning systems we use now or may use in the future, could impair the benefits that they provide to our in-store and online business and negatively affect our relationship with our customers.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20234median 1
- Fiscal 20244median 4
- Fiscal 20259median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | 26,000 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-28 | 26,000 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-30 | 25,000 | 2024-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 24,000 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-25 | 22,000 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-26 | 20,000 | 2021-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-28 | 16,000 | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-29 | 15,000 | 2019-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-30 | 14,000 | 2018-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 13,000 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-26 | 12,000 | 2016-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-02-18 | 11,000 | 2015-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2014-02-19 | 10,200 | 2014-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-29 | 9,400 | 2013-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2012-02-29 | 8,700 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2011-02-23 | 7,900 | 2011-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-26 | 7,600 | 2010-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-27 | 7,200 | 2009-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-29 | 6,900 | 2008-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-30 | 5,500 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 5,000 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-25 | 4,200 | 2005-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-27 | 3,700 | 2004-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-28 | 3,500 | 2003-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-29 | 2,100 | 2002-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-30 | 2,000 | 2001-03-23 | 10-K |
| 2000-01-01 | 3,500 | 2000-03-24 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-26 | 3,100 | 1999-03-17 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-27 | 2,700 | 1998-03-18 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-28 | 2,500 | 1997-03-21 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The collector took the full-time count; the total is the sum of the stated full-time and part-time parts (rule 2).
- No count by location kind: shares by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000916365-26-000014, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Tractor Supply Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 26% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Tractor Supply Company's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Tractor Supply Company employ?
- 52,000 as of December 27, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives.
- What kinds of work make up Tractor Supply Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Lawn and Garden Equipment and Supplies Retailers; by those patterns the work is about 26% desk work, 21% people work and 53% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Tractor Supply Company's annual report say about AI?
- 9 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 1, 1, 4, 4 and 9 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 3, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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