Auto Supply Blog » purchasing agreements

So, we’re looking through our numbers here, pouring through them like Scrooge McDuck counting his gold pieces… and we find that our paper floor mat sales have spiked.  We mean, SPIKED!  What?  Those heavy commoditized items that, by the way, you gotta have.  New or used car dealer, nobody is going to buy a car with dirty carpeting, are they?  Nope.  And if you’re...

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...

For the last 25 years we have been selling automotive dealer supplies.  One of the most infuriating things we continue to see are our service company competitors signing customers to service agreements that include Evergreen Clauses.  An Evergreen Clause is wording where the parties agree that the agreement rolls over automatically and indefinitely until one party gives the other notice to terminate.  Usually, this...