Advance Auto parts is closing 700 stores nationwide.

408 swinger said

The local Napa and Auto Value typically are decent on prices. This particular instance, I wasn't having it. I didn't raise hell or anything, I simply didn't buy from them. Without sending this to the N&P, hopefully things will get better in the coming months/years.

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I never took offense to someone saying our (CarQuest) prices were high, they were. I did work with them on the pricing, until corporate locked us out of looking up our cost, and adding the minimum percent profit they wanted. We sold a lot at that minimum number while we could.

I worked the majority of my time there for lower wages than I might have made elsewhere, but I loved that job. A new manager who didn't know squat about parts, he couldn't even look them up correctly, ruined it and I knew I was done when he showed up. Now I just hang my head when they ask me "what vehicle" when I simply ask for 3/8" rubber fuel hose.