Wise words! On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Gary Roland <garyroland1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In 2005 I worked for Checkers in Cheyenne. Checkers was the C in CSK K > being > Kragens. The Checker computer system was truly awful. While your local > Kragen's > person may have mastered Kragens system, few mastered Checker's system. It > was > an old, poorly built, DOS base system. Think of the old DOS based Wordstar > program, that was what the interface was like. You had to know what you > where > looking for and where to find it in the program. Once you found the part > there > were no pictures, what you found was part number, price and availability . > Don't > count on the availability being close to right. > > The OReilly's parts program is much better at helping the counter person > find > the right part. If a picture is worth a thousand words then a picture of > wheel > cylinder is worth a weekend. Is it perfect? no, but it is 30 years ahead > of the > old system. Remember what the pay at a part store counter is. Why would a > good > mechanic give up $30 an hour to work for $10? Mostly they don't The > computer has > to help fill the knowledge gap. > Second as much as we love them, there are very few non-Jeep Amc still on > the > road. Anybody want to bet whether there are more Kia's on the road today > than > AMC? I am grateful that they can order a part much less have it on the > shelf. > Now is the time to build your personal stock pile of parts. > > Gary Roland > Cheyenne Wy > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20101025/940e9824/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > AMC-list mailing list > AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20101025/3dd05ac7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com