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I should add the lack of people or the interest in learning howMany Mo & Joe are all on govt. dole food-stamps
progressive & extended subsidized Unemployment now
Was since 1921, with 7,000 service bays,
(no idea how many employees)
with 700+ locations in 35 states & Puerto Rico
I assume a few of the employees will remain
Pep Boys weren't ever top tier parts or services
they were more like the Grand Auto,
Advanced Auto, Autozone, O'Reilly APs
Checkers Schucks & Kragens (an old sponsor of mine) etc.
bigger box chains style cheap/er (many foreign/Chinese) parts
&/or some service bays/lifts in many/most outlets
other than the actual service aspect, onsite techs
the www-online presence cut big into their parts end of sales
to fix/doing their own car, engine, trans, rear, body, interior etc. work today
probably has something to do with some of it too...
It's being taught or pushed out too...
We are in the millennials era & mandatory Electric car age group
Cars are (mostly not all) viewed as disposable throw away transportation
not, an excitement factor
not, the same right of passage or passion, the true freedoms
as our generations were
our youth revolved around our cars
Also lots of computer-controlled electronics stuff,
where people are too afraid, to work on their own cars/trucks etc.
IMO seems like the lack of interest or 'learning about it'
getting down & dirty, in working on the stuff mostly...
More into the video games & computer tech stuff, shoved down their throats
some good some not so good
it's a whole different world, that they are teaching the youth today too...
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