Claiborne Farmers Cooperative — Local services in New Tazewell

I have never had any of the other friendliness or courteousness since I moved here in 2019. We run a non-profit teaching farm and I have been in this place multiple times and If i ask about anything the lady at register has to ask others who will just give the simplest answer. I have asked to see products like hay or straw....they are annoyed by me asking anything. Several times I bought straw and they were a month apart and the same price but I was given half bales the second time. Now, If I must buy there I ask to see it first. I buy a LOT in BULK but I drive to Rogersville to purchase from Dodson where people are happy to help me with my $450.00 - $600.00 order and I split that with Rural King who has cheaper prices and no customer service. I may as well buy and load myself if cheaper, I have just never had a great experience at Claiborne Co-operative. I still do not know what they carry because if I don't ask one single request at a time I would be there til from dawn to duck. I was new 5 years ago and asked what they sold and different brands- the answer was what do you need ? Yeah , not so great but they lost over $12,000 a year from responses and smirks and hating to do anything...yet , I watched a man come in for corn and got the attention of ALL the store employees, talking to him and wishing him well and could they help him buy more cattle products. Definitely not open to new people. So, my review is GREAT if you are born , bred and from Claiborne County and...

was here with a set of recap tires for a work truck, after having them put on, terrible vibration 1st 20 miles i drove, stopped to check lugs, they were on, got to looking and had 16 oz o wheel weights on passenger rear, tried to take off , they had hammered lugs on so tight, i couldn't break them loose, stooped at nearest shop, the stain steel lug covers were rounded so bad had to chisel them off, then use a different size socket to get lugs loose, that was $20, returned to coop in new tazewell, showead manger the lugs and the weights they put on when tire was balanced, He said there was normal for recaps, advised him i had worked at FIRESTONE 2 years, and if it took over 8 oz. to balance ,that it was rejected and sent back to capper, after 45 minutes he agreed to let the price i paid for the caps to go toward new tires but refused to return my money , when it come down to the $5 per lug issue, he refused to pay , so an extra $50 out of my pocket for chrome lugs, and an extra $40 per tire between the caps and new ones,so an extra $130 that day, little did he know i had over a 1000 friends on Fb and Twitter and posted what i just wrote here, i know in revenue he has lost 1000s of dollars getting my extra $130 plus the fact i had been buying tires there for 30 years and at the moment i have 3 cars and 2 trucks, but no more coop tires...

Took my tire here to get it patched and as a stay at home mom I had to take my one year old daughter with me they was 15 minutes late opening up and was not friendly at all when me and my daughter went into the waiting room it was nasty there was trash piled up on the table And you could tell the waiting area hasn’t been swept or mopped in years and the amount of dust was ridiculous. Definitely not somewhere that I would want my kid to be breathing that stuff in it’s definitely not kid friendly and Doesn’t feel very welcoming at all I have posted pictures of the...