Posted by mkirsch on December 30, 2014 at 06:13:04 from (72.45.143.81):
In Reply to: AGCO rant posted by Bob Bancroft on December 29, 2014 at 16:05:19:
Just because the doors are open and the lights are on does not mean a business is profitable.
One thing you guys don't seem to consider here is that the market has changed since the 1950s.
Where there were 50 small family farms, there are now 1 or 2 BTOs and a couple of small guys hanging on by a thread. The BTOs are the only ones buying new equipment. The small guys get by with patching up old junk.
Customer base is way way down. You don't need that many dealerships, salesmen, and parts guys to serve them all.
Really, shutting these dealerships down is almost a mercy killing, to spare them a decade of slow decline into bankruptcy.
Look at your "lucrative parts business." When was the last time you had to wait for more than one person ahead of you at the parts counter? Heck, the few times I've been into the big chain dealerships in the last couple of years, I've walked right up to the counter. NOBODY there ahead of me! It's not so "lucrative."
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