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The law of unintended consequences is straightforward: policies intended to address one problem can create entirely new ones. Co-Pilot defines it as “outcomes of actions that are not anticipated or intended, often leading to unexpected results in social, economic, and political contexts.” This situation reminds us of that famous clever Matt Damon moment from the 1997 classic Good Will Hunting—but we’ll come back to...

Ohio’s popular Sales Tax Holiday is back for 2025, running from Friday, August 1 at midnight through Thursday, August 14 at 11:59 p.m. While it started in 2015 as a way to ease back-to-school shopping costs, the holiday has expanded over the years—and yes, it now impacts auto dealerships, service departments, and parts counters. So, what does this two-week window mean for your dealership?...

Just last week one of your Autostoresupply.com crew was sitting in the service waiting area at one of our customer dealerships as his vehicle was having an oil change.

You know we here at Autostoresupply.com actually go out and make sales calls on dealers.  No way, you say?  It’s true.  We have two entire associations worth of new and used car dealers that we are providing dealer specific supplies for, and we love to get out on the road to visit our customers. While we’re out there, we do have some interesting conversations. ...

Since 1995 our parent company, the Auto Dealers Co-Operative in Cincinnati, Ohio has been serving dealerships.  We were built by dealers, are owned by dealers, and work for dealers.  That’s what we do, that’s all we do, and that’s all we will ever do.

We here at AutostoreSupply.com have a home base where we go out and visit with customers in the automotive segment on a regular basis.  New car dealers, used car dealers, body shops…you name it… We love to go out and listen to customers, it is where we learn, it is where we put the idea together for AutostoreSupply.com.  We would like to share one...