Tractor Supply CEO says there’s ‘significant migration’ out of cities [Video]

Tractor Supply CEO Hal Lawton told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday that a substantial number of Americans are moving out of cities, and many are headed to rural areas.

“Rural America is alive and well, and growing, and really leading in many ways in this country,” Lawton said, adding the population outflows spiked during the pandemic years but do persist.

“They’ve continued, albeit to a lesser absolute number, but net we’re still seeing significant migration out of urban America, and most of that migration, or a lot of it, is going into rural America,” Lawton said.

Tractor Supply is a retail chain that sells equipment for home improvement, such as supplies for gardening and farming.

Lawton told Cramer that the company has been dealing with business headwinds, with consumer spending trends swinging from goods to services. But he expressed optimism for the future, saying Tractor Supply can “begin to see light at …