Autozone Case Study 2013

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Thirty six years ago, no one knew that the little parts store that just opened in Forrest City Arkansas, would be the spark to generate the industry leading company known as AutoZone with 5609 stores in the US, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Mexico (AutoZone, 2015; Parnell, 2014). AutoZone is a giant with revenues of $10.2 billion dollars, and they showed a healthy growth of seven and a half percent over last year’s income (“AutoZone 4th Quarter Same”, 2015). AutoZone opened 218 stores this fiscal year, and 95 of those were in the short 16 weeks between May through August. With an average store sale of over 1.7 million dollars per year, there is obviously a strong justification to continue opening new stores in underserved areas.

While AutoZone