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Tales From the Road - Volume III DEALER'S CHOICE We’re going to call this installment of Tales From the Road, "Dealers Choice."  By the end of this story you may change that to, "How Not to Get a Deal."  You know Autostoresupply.com has been up and active now for just about eight months.  We’re shipping to 16 states now and have surpassed 100 customers. ...

March 2023 - We were on the road again, having a chat with one of our dealer customers and this happened… Autostore:  Didn’t you guys used to buy nitrile gloves from us?  You stopped.  Why did you stop? Dealer:  We don’t know… suddenly, we’re getting gloves from the same people that do our uniforms and change our floor mats. Autostore:  Oh no, the same...

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’ve been supplying dealerships and the automotive industry with daily use supplies for 25 years.  In that time, we’ve made some observations on where and how money is being wasted.  We thought we would share them with you.  In no particular order… because they all are bad… Allowing vendors to make out orders and stock your shelves Letting anyone not employed by the dealership...