Dems have definitely moved this country in the wrong direction as of late, but corporate hacks ruined pepboys. There’s a store a couple blocks from my house. I would drive past it EVERY time I went on a parts run. Used to try em once every couple years, but I never got the right part when I was at the counter. Or the time they didn’t have ONE oil filter for a small block Chevy in stock, any part number, any brand. But they had inflatable rafts in stock, and Chinese mopeds, in every color. They were gunning for max profits, every quarter…instead of running an auto parts store. Makes me laugh every time I’d drive past, and see a NAPA parts delivery car, pull up to the service side of pepboys, because they didn’t have much in stock.
I rather have another pop-up Halloween costume store, than a pepboys, watching goofballs in the parking lot, putting chrome tape on their primer-colored *^##boxes.