Yes, expenses are high. BUT, these folks don't need to try and pay their entire month's expenses out of one job! Figuratively speaking of course. As cars get more and more expensive to maintain, repair shops are eventually price themselves out of the market. When it gets cheaper to trade than repair, a tipping pint will be reached and cars will become a disposable item.
Something else to consider is what can the average working person afford? Does any shop really consider that when they are writing up that repair order?
Ultimately, the cars that become too expensive to fix are the ones that end up at the local car auction. Then, repair shops or used car dealers get cheap cars to fix and resell because they have their own facilities to fix them economically.
When I had my own shop, I tried to keep things affordable for the customers. Not everybody has a bottomless checking account or a bottomless credit limit on their master card.
Also, how do you figure that Wal-Mart's markup is so high when they are selling the same things for less than the local merchants? Whether it be groceries, cosmetics, hardware, or automotive accessories, they are selling for LESS that the local competition. So how does that translate into hundreds to thousands of percent markup on everything they sell?
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