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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...

Autostoresupply.com has just had its one-year anniversary.  Wow, have we learned a lot in a year about setting up shop!  It’s not just about the operational logistics, order to cash, product selection… you know the nuts and bolts of distribution.  Today it’s about sessions, conversion rates, abandoned carts, and a thousand other tech terms that we won’t bore you with.

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.

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. ...