There’s no O’Reilly close enough to me to try, the closest is like 20 miles south of me. I have Autozone, three Advance, Napa and a handful of independent stores less than 10 miles from me. As it happened, I was in Autozone complaining to the commercial manager that I knew about the counter help and he was like, just get a commercial account. I hadn’t walked into the store intending to do that and I wasn’t going to see if somewhere else would offer me an account at that point so that’s how I ended up with one there.
Nobody these days understands quality it seems, they just care about the cheapest price. So the market is flooded with cheap crap made by slave labor in other countries.
Unfortunately the online stuff is often full of fake parts anymore. Parts are becoming a real crap shoot no matter where you get it
I absolutely agree. To further support your point Parks sold me three bad ICM's before they sold me one that would work. They were all used I figure, none of them were in the plastic i was used to seeing and didn't come with any dielectric grease except the last which is what worked.
I’ve had the same kind of experience but with Advance. I’ve had a few go-rounds with Autozone too. Neither of them really keeps most of their employees so usually after a couple years it’s mostly all new people.
Yup the turnover is crazy, because the pay is a joke. I used to work for VatoZone for a few years part-time. Their Z Net computer system is a joke. I'd find nothing on there by doing the year, make and model BS. I'd Google the part needed, find some alternative part numbers for it and put those into the Z Net garbage and usually something would pop up, usually a Cardone or Dorman part.
The manager of this Autozone doesn’t harass anyone. He has, quite consistently, turned out sales numbers far in excess of the previous manager simply by doing his job well. He will gladly go to great lengths to find and get parts for anyone and he treats the smallest customer with the same respect as the big ones. He also knows what is a reasonable price and what isn’t and makes the appropriate adjustments. Don’t know what I will do when he eventually retires, lol. His sales numbers are consistently larger in one day than an entire week of sales back when I worked there so corporate doesn’t bother him too much.
The store in Florida I worked at had either the commercial or store manager stop by like once every 3 months or so. I think the district manager might visit occasionally as well. But our district manager was an ass and he eventually quit and got in to pet cremations.
