Your right you can cut your way to profits. It will look good to the stock holders but it isnt something that will sustain itself. The problem is when you go that direction you have employees that wonder whos next. Moral is at a all time low... — read more 

T.G. comes from a 30 year career at Pepsi, where his most recent position was CEO of Frito-Lay North America. Unless the company plans to start selling spark plugs in vending machines it is hard to see how clearly this experience translates. In any... — read more 

Advance claims they are in the commercial business but no one in upper management understands the commercial business! Walk in to any Advance store and order 10 different Heavy Duty belts for a few different over the road trucks with say a Detroit... — read more 

I understand the whole Carquest / World-Pac purchase & they needed the Import Parts ....But in the Lexington Market the Former Carquest Mngmt ( turned AAP ) ran the WHOLE biz in the ground top to bottom ! PERIOD ! They Wanted to run it all their way... — read more 

Advance claims they are in the commercial business but no one in upper management understands the commercial business! Walk in to any Advance store and order 10 different Heavy Duty belts for a few different over the road trucks with say a Detroit... — read more 

I heard about some job opportunities arising in the area of Raleigh in the automotive sector. It's pretty weird that other company in the same market and same state just started a round of layoffs.

Everyone is just a #. Next week they will have a whole new set of GM coming out of VA. For 1\3 of the wage. The said thing is after you become GM. There is only 1place to go after that. OUT THE DOOR. Its no w worth the money. They put you on salary... — read more 

AAP's lack of profitability since the CarQuest acquisition has nothing to do with the cost of a few hundred employees. AAP's failure is due to the complete lack of vision, direction, strategy, focus, prioritization, and sustained execution on the... — read more 

The number could be 5-15K total. I know that seems outrageous and I hope it is, but the company is preparing to be sold. That is why no announcements has been made and no WARN notice ins in NC or VA.

No hours in the stores, it's about customer service, which we have none. You can't have 2 people on and look up parts, answer the phone, install batteries and wipers, and do all the other vs you need to do to get the job done. This company will be... — read more 

I worked in Corp Finance for 3 years. I moved from Austin, TX to Roanoke, VA for the position. I left a few months ago and it was such a great decision. So many issues going on that I could go on rants for days. Chairman of the Board. He wants AAP to... — read more 

You actually can cut your way to profits. It is that way of thinking (the inverse, spend your way to profits) that got us in the predicament we are in! Whomever said that is inexperienced in financial logic. When you see the holistic picture, you can... — read more 

As soon as the chairman of the board made a stake with the company, everything started going down hill. He wants outsourcing of most of IT, most of the call centers in order to shore up the P&L and hopes for a buyer like O'Reilly to come along so he... — read more 

Called the India call center recently because the store was off line and received a call back 2 days later. What a joke.

I worked for Advanced Auto parts for 7yrs as a CPP I started out part time on the sales counter moved up to a key holder and had to leave the company because of my dad passing away and my grandad was sick but I stayed in parts The companies DM... — read more 

RVP got the axe yesterday, very sad day. As well as Regional customer account manager, who was just recently recruited from another retailer. Advance Auto Parts is cutting costs to make up for their past mistakes and to help satisfy the stockholders... — read more 

Here is the story about us, employees, uncovering the huge layoff that's been kept away from the media and the public eye. http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2017/06/23/layoffs-website-littered-with-comments-from.html

Field leadership throughout the organization - including DM's, RVP's and CAM's were layed off this past week. Severance packages issued, some took paycuts and demotions and all lost valuable

He is cutting all the roles to bring in his Pepsi people already did it in HR.. what can you expect from someone who never changed his oil.. only knows how to do it with a credit card.. Worst company I ever worked for and I was not part of the lay... — read more 

People don't shop at Advance Auto anymore. i get parks from Rockauto and Amazon for 20% to 40% less. That is why the layoffs are happening.

Best of luck to anyone that believes they will retire. Not being sarcastic but realistic. My advice is have a plan B and money in the bank. Spend sensibly and live within your means. You do not know when your name is "selected". Regardless of your... — read more 

PDQ not delivering on TIME cost our stores LOTS of money people and Professional shops going to our competitors. And now it's COST US GREAT DL's and GM's its not the store's its PDQ can't get there stuff together. I am a GM and I call to complain but... — read more 

Getting rid of fat within Corporate is the first step of my hope helping the people in the stores on the front line! Only place I know where there's a cash register to take money in is the stores! Corporate forgot their own Mission statement really... — read more 

It sure doesn't seem that way. Most of the people that were released had 20 plus years, This is a business that requires knowledgeable people. Until they understand what we do and more important what our customers need we will never win. You cannot... — read more 

In the Delaware, Ohio distribution center they terminatated the position of 6 managers positions. 5 of which yes i would hate to see go, but one in particular makes me sick due to how much this specific manager did for the company. 24 years of... — read more 

I have been with Advance for a long time, when i started we had 22 stand alone PDQs throughout the company. Now we are down to 5...Super HUBs are a joke and do not have imventoey accuracy of a PDQ. Everytime I order a part from our super hub i get a... — read more 

AAP in Remington has laid off several and Fired many (with severance) pay. Managers and leads. Our number have gone from 65,000 a day to 25- 30,00. Hours usually till 5 pm then 4 now 3. The company fired or laid off some of the best managers and... — read more 

Good post - reposting from @NUs4ICx-naz - I did not write this but I thought it was very thoughtful: Cams were redundant, asset protection was never present in the stores unless something big was happening, and some districts needed to be realigned... — read more 

http://www1.salary.com/ADVANCE-AUTO-PARTS-INC-Executive-Salaries.html Check it out.

HR asst cut and several department managers... 2 reassigned

Unfortunate but I am one

Asset protection has been dissolved, cams let go, re-aligned districts and hr team thinning out, count up to around 900

Would somebody be able to recommend me a really good employment attorney. I think I may have a really good chance of suing AAP, my case is well documented and I would need a good attorney to put it together. There is the number of instances where the... — read more 

5 manager layoffs at Remington DC

In the decade plus I have worked for AAP, our Distribution Center has often bragged that we have never had layoffs. That doesn't mean there is much investment and focus on improving the conditions for employees. The other side of that coin is that... — read more 

Been with the company 21 years and 38 in the industry, havn't seen business this bad in quite a while. We are the largest in the industry but still play second fiddle if you ask me. We always seem to follow when we should be leading. I do believe... — read more 

Maybe we should laid off IT geniuses that thought that mechanics would like talking to a call center in India.

How many VPs that you're referring to lost their jobs yesterday? Mine had 30 years with the company and was sent packing

I heard the Division President in Denver was sent PACKing. Pun intended