45+ years at this crap. Dealerships, independents, buying parts commercially, selling performance/race stuff, a few months managing one of the national chain stores, even a few months in a dealership parts dept. It's not 1978 anymore and it all sucks.

One little Carquest left close by. They mostly went away when Advance bought them. I liked Carquest and used them 100% for years. Now we have NAPAs, but they are being bought up and a few larger operations run all of them in the whole area. I still prefer NAPA parts now, but it's hard to avoid Chinese crap. A few Federated, One of the Carquests became an Auto Plus. And an independent I know of with multiple locations who do OK. And a bunch of AZ and Advance. All within an hour.

AZ and Advance I try to avoid. Overpriced, help is paid poorly, and I make sure I have part numbers and they have it if I go.