Advance Auto parts is closing 700 stores nationwide.

PROSTOCKTOM said

Advanced Auto has over 6500 locations, so trimming off the bottom underperforming 10% of those stores has to be an overall win-win for the corporation.

This is what the new CEO of Edelbrock did when he took over. He cut the 400 lowest selling items of the inventory.

Tom

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5,905 total per Fortune, including corporate (Advance) and independents (CarQuest).

It may be "trimming the fat" but their stock has plummeted in past year by more than 30%, which indicates a larger problem than could be blamed on just 12.3% of their stores. Their goal of building the easiest possible computer system to enable hiring lowest-common-denominator staff is backfiring. The first training lesson seems to be "Do not ask if they want fries with that."