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That is capitalism at it's finest. Here in Houston it was usually the
O'Reillys that had a domain, then Auto Zone moved within a 3 iron. Some are
ridiculous....like Long Point location near Wirt....O'Reillys is within 50 yards
of Auto Zone, I mean they are next to each other, might be able to find it on
google earth perhaps. Sort of like having a Starbucks on each corner. Home Depot
and Lowes have fought same fight thru years, one upmanship, there is Home Depot
for long time at I-10 and Beltway 8, so Lowes opens up 1 mile down I-10 at
Bunker Hill, then Home Depot opens SECOND I-10 location 1 mile farther in at
Wirt, yikes is there that many people building shit? Eh, ok, there is room for
all of them after hurricane Ike last year.
AMC content before I go out and buy fence posts and cement at midnight now,
I have a fellow trying to sell me this little 73 Gremlin shown in the jpeg here,
solid, and may/may not run, for $750. I am considering it, however, with
Christmas rapidly approaching, as is property taxes, might put on back
burner.
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Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:01
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Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re:
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O'Reilly's sprung up around here over night it seems. I love their
marketing tactics. Find an auto zone and open one up as close as you can
to it. Now Advance is moving in. As for as independents they use to
be one on every corner. Now the only one I know of is about 15 miles
away. If I am going in that direction and need a part I try and buy it
from him but most of the time he is just to far away. Since I am getting
to fat and old to do a hell of lot of mechanical work on my cars and
don't know how to fix a lot on these newer one I looked around for a
decent place to work on mine. It took me a while and a few
scewings but I finally found a guy I like. The problem is he is an old
man and I don't know how much longer he is going to be able to work on
them. Example I have a Celica and my radiator went out on it.The damn
plastic aluminum piece of crap. I tried two or three things and they did
nothing. Took the car to a radiator shop where I got a big grin on a
guys face because he saw what I tried to do and said you can't fix them
things. $350 and we will put a new one in for you. I price it and it was
going to cost me about $230 to do it myself and I agreed with the man at
the radiator shop it looked like a pain in the rear to take it out. I
took it to Butch he had it about a week and when he called me he said I
better be sitting down because it was high. He charged me $265. $35 more
dollars then doing it myself. I figured it save me a whole days work,
busted knuckles and losing my religion. The only problem I had with him
is when I took my Gremlin to have some work done on it. He kept it about
three weeks. When I picked it up it had almost a full tank of gas in it
and it was at a half when I took it to him. I noticed he had put about
150 miles on it too. I was a little tick off until he told me what he
had done. He said he took it for a long test drive and showed it to some
of his buddies. He said he put gas in it. He talked about it like it was
a long lost friend. I couldn't be mad at guy for showing off my
baby.
Terry
--- On Sun, 11/15/09, Ralph Bade
<rebade1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From:
Ralph Bade <rebade1@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:
[BaadAssGremlins] Re: Walmart
To:
BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009,
8:30 PM
I work at one of those family owned auto parts stores. We are
under the Auto Value/Bumper to Bumper name, but privately owned.
O'Reilly's bought out the owners of a lot of store distribution
centers in Minnesota and tried to freeze everyone out. Every
independent store in all the small towns saw their parts prices go up
through the roof, as O'Reilly's tried to force them to sell out to
them. I will never set foot in an O'Reilly's again, as they are just
Walmart in sheeps clothing.
O'Reilly's at one time was part of the Automotive Parts Alliance,
which owns the Auto Value/Bumper to Bumper logos. But when they got
real big, they pulled out and went on their own. Then they bought out
Pep Boys/Checker/ CSK Corp. Left a lot of independents to try to
compete on their own... Sorry Bart for the rant...
Ralph in
MN
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