Thanks.
Advance includes Carquest-branded stores in its total store count, so I'd guess those stores aren't any safer. I looked pretty closely at the full earnings report that came out this morning, and it looks better than it did a year ago, but they still netted essentially zero money, and it really looks like they are just trying to free up assets to make their bottom line look better. Might work in the short term. Of all of the places and companies I have worked for, this one is by far the most poorly run and inefficient.
Thanks. God, that'd be a bleak future. Think I'm gonna go study some book maffs to prevent things from coming to that.
Thanks Steve.