Barnes Supply Co
(919) 286-2750
774 9TH St
Durham,
NC
27705
36.0103
-78.9218
Neighborhood: Old West Durham
What People Are Saying About Barnes Supply Co
User Reviews
vulpes
January 22, 2009
Customer Service Can't be Beat! Dog/cat feed: Natura products (yay! Innova, CA Natural, EVO), TOTW, EaglePack Holistic, Solid Gold, Diamond's Premium Edge (and Chicken Soup FTS, Diamond itself, crud in a bag), Purina ProPlan, Wellness etc. Comparable pricing with frequent buyer savings on select feeds. Samples for customers readily available on shelves, so you don't have to pay $20-40 just to "try" a premium, quality, nutrient-rich food. Recently Natura prices up at this store, actually better at Phydeaux, Chapel Hill, but I go to Barnes for good folks, local community feel, and great service! Eclectic variety of pet hardware (Lupine! lifetime warranty, free exchanges!), treats, bones (roasted, pig ears, bully sticks), toys and supplements; bird houses/feeders and feed. Beds/crates. GOOD supply Weaver leather dog restraints. In Spring, Broad St sidewalk storefront is full of their plants for sale, primarily commercialized (Bonnie brand), but still pretty to looksee. EXCELLENT folks workin there, very attentive, consistent, helpful, know their stock and inventory well. If they don't know they'll find out, they'll order it, check with a "senior level" employee, they'll "serve" you, unlike the chainstores! Special orders also. Also carry Purina livestock feeds, in the heart of Durham, imagine! I'd love some horse dewormers and supplements, but they are just Filled to Capacity already with pet foods. Please, keep their doors open and their staff employed, as I and my crazed critters would miss Barnes terribly! GO get some yummy food! Maybe they'll expand some day and have all my critters' needs met, if you patron their fine establishment that is!
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Anonymous
January 02, 2009
I used to buy dog food, garden supplies and plants here. It is close, only 2 miles from my house. I initially started going there because they carry great quality dog food, but unfortunately, they do not store the food well. In the summer the food is exposed to heat and humidity (no AC) and they keep outdated products on the shelf. I once bought some food for my puppy and fed it to her without inspecting it first. I did not notice the mold until after I fed her. Luckily, she is still here and alive and well. When I brought the food back to the owner, he acted so rude to me, like I had done something wrong. They offered to swap the food out but all the food from that company was months out of date!!!! I went back to the store the next weekend, just to see what they did about the food. And to my horror, all of the same bags of food were still for sale on the shelf. I will NEVER recommend this place to anyone nor will I ever buy anything from these people ever again.
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kwinz
November 19, 2008
I love Barnes Supply! We buy most of our pet food there. A couple of years ago, we learned the hard way that pets aren't safe eating most of the supermarket brand foods. We lost our beautiful, sweet tortoiseshell cat to kidney failure, a casualty of that national rash of pet foods tainted with bad Chinese grain ingredients. Afterwards, I wanted to learn as much as possible about pet nutrition so I could feel confident I would never again feed our pets something harmful. I was stunned to learn that the vast majority of commercial cat and dog foods are made with ingredients like corn and wheat that are really bad for cats and dogs. After all, they are carnivores. That means they need meat. They just aren't built to digest plant proteins very well. Also, the most common allergies in cats and dogs are to corn, wheat, and soy, but we usually don't realize that our itchy, scratchy, stinky, hairball-y pets wouldn't be like that if we gave them better food. Most of the commercial foods are loaded up with cheap grain-based fillers and most of us never know better. Even a lot of the of the so-called "premium" brands are really not much better, when you read the ingredients. Now I'm careful to read labels and buy foods that don't contain things like wheat gluten or corn. The really annoying thing is that safe and healthy brands of pet food aren't sold at most supermarkets or even pet stores. Barnes Supply Co is a treasure because they do sell the good stuff, and in a wide variety, at decent prices. Barnes Supply has the best range of natural, organic, and "specialty" brands of any store I've seen - Innova, EVO, Wellness, Taste of the Wild, Solid Gold, Organix, and more. By the way, they also have a nice gardening and outdoor section, and sometimes they'll even have some locally made treats for humans up by the register.
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