Posted on 03/11/2025 4:51:30 PM PDT by davikkm
Kinda tough to make it selling just tires and window washer fluid?
I know two of these stores that have paired up with Pep Boys auto services. Will the boys last?
AutoZone seems to be doing very well
As does O'Reilly's.
Commifornia is blatantly banning gas new cars by year 2035. There may be a strong market in the future for fixing existing gas cars there. Or new gas cars will be bought out of state. I guess we can call them backdoor alley cars. LOL
“Kinda tough to make it selling just tires and window washer fluid?”
I guess you have never been to one.
amazoing. and crappy too, especially as a number of other stores have been closing there
It was a woke leftist company. Like others, they attempted to indoctrinate their employees and word spread.
They needed to go belly up.
I thought for the last 10 years that the growth of Auto Parts stores was unsustainable.
My town (about 15K people) had three new stories open in 5 years.
Two pre-existing stores have been around for years.
One store, brand new building, closed less than a year after opening.
I don’t even know that many people that repair their own cars anymore, other than antique cars.
Another attack on anything that’s not electric. In a state that does not have enough electricity.
No different than drugstores. Look at Walgreens versus CVS versus Rite Aid.
Too much overhead moving from page to page on their website, when it works correctly. Everything way overpriced. Difficult to use coupon codes only made prices more or less normal. No one at counter when ordering ahead for pickup. Amazon is much easier.
One plus Autozone has is that they install batteries, replace wiper blades and will even give you a free code reading. Some stores will loan tools for parking lot repairs. I’m not sure if Advance does the same, but if not it’s a big miss.
For a lot of folks, it’s sort of the emergency room of auto repair.
If you joined O’Reilly or AutoZone 30 years ago as manager you would be a millionaire right now, due to their massive stock increases. But if joined Advance you would be broke.
O’rileys does those things too.
Smart move.
Electric cars don’t need many parts.......
Go woke, go broke!
That’s the privately owned business in South Africa. The publicly traded company in the US is doing well.
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