Parts Store Inexperience

mikelbeck said
I went into Auto Zone last week looking for spark plugs - Autolite 65's. The kid at the counter asked me what car they were for. I said I wasn't sure, he looked at me like I had three heads. I asked him to just look up Autolite 65 and see if they're in there. So he tried, said it wasn't in there. I said try again, he did, still not there. I peeked around to see what he was putting in:

"Autolights sixty5"

I said "try auto lite - ELL EYE TEE EEE". So he did:

"Auto lites sixty5"

I said "try auto lite without the s". Still nothing.

"Take out the space", I said.

Amazingly, he was able to find them. He said "I didn't know we carried any AutoLite stuff". I look at the wall of spark plug wires behind him... That all say "AutoLite".

when i joined the board, i worked at advance autoparts :)
i tried not to be any of these scenarios you fellas are describing.

as for the parts search. i know advance' system is setup so you could just hit
"65" in the search field and it would bring up anything with that PN, and almost every time you search, the first few things that come up are some type of spark plug.

in the spark plug shelf/drawers, the 65 autolite is one of the first drawers, i can not tell you how many i sold working there, that kid must've been very green still.