Strauss Auto is no more
 

Reports are coming in that the stores are locked up and lights are off. There are signs saying they are closed.

Saw this coming a while back. Ouch. Any word on who bought up the inventory/might buy the stores?

B/c strauss sucked. I used to go there every chance i got but then found walmart had the same stuff, just cheaper (supplies/oil). Then they had the bright idea to switch to service/tire sales only which put them in the market w/etd and all the other tire shops that had a myraid of other brands strauss didn't carry... autozone, walmart, pepboys just did it better supplies and parts.....

Good thing you got the flock outta there pal!

Always hated them. Their employess generally sucked too :lol: :generalizations:

Never heard of them :shrug:

Never had any memorable experiences with Strauss. Always saw it as a less than Pep Boys which isn't saying much. Sucks to hear people are losing their jobs though.

They were doing bad in 2009 and tried to compete with Autozone, Advance, Pep Boys, and the big boys.

they sucked. for some reason we had them on a charge account, and at the end of the month theyd be a pain to get money from

Same here. They owe roughly 5-10k per Auto Zone in my district. Gooooodbye bonus.

LOL, I thought they closed years ago!

Yup. Always a hellhole.

The one in my town has been gone for QUITE some time

I'm still convinced that the one old cranky guy who worked the parts counter in the back was the reason that store closed. Autozone and Advance right down the road sure didn't help either.

- Justin

Mr.bald headed pony tail?

My friend worked the parts counter back in the day at the one in Pompton Plains nj..rt 23 north....and a stripper worked the cash counter in the front during the day..passaic strip club at night...f'ing hilarious how she couldn't make change of anything more than a dollar but it did take me 3months to find the champagne room, right next to the goo-be-gone.

Right now, no prospective buyers at all.

I have also, never heard of them.

JW :D

Place was a dump anyway

That parts counter was a battle! They could never find the right parts for your vehicle and disagreed with you when you showed them the right part. I pretty much went there to buy oil and wipers. The Pep Boys/Autozone pretty much closed down R&S Strauss on Olden Ave. I still hate going down to Autozone and will get stuff from NAPA as long as they are open.

I like the place when it was R&S back in the day but I'm not surprised that they are closed. Most parts stores these days suck to begin with. The only really good ones left are NAPA and sometimes Norwood.

I generally stick to Napa for oil filters and major parts....off the shelf stuff is almost always quite a bit cheaper at Autozone / Advance though, and now they are directly across the street from each other on Olden Ave. I bought some Permatex threadlocker at Napa a few months ago because I was there for oil filters....later found the exact same tube at the Zone for less than 1/2 the price.

- Justin

Walmart is still the cheapest for oil though....5quart jug of mobil1 i run in all the cars is still $27...compared to $30+ at any auto parts retailer.

Keep on fuelin the machine....

don't trust anyone but myself with all my cars oil changes...

i can only imagine how many people these places rip off by charging for a oil filter that was never changed