Walk into one of these stores and the inventory makes no sense.
Work boots. Chicken feed. Candy. Tires. A wall of hunting equipment. Livestock medicine. Toys. A grocery aisle. Fencing. Something that is legitimately a tractor.
A retail consultant would call this unfocused. Every modern retail principle says pick a category and own it. Depth beats breadth. Know your customer.
This store violates all of that on purpose.
And it works, in a region where plenty of more focused retailers have failed, because the store is not organized around a product category at all.
It is organized around a person.
Once you see that, the tractor next to the candy stops being strange and becomes the entire point.