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Title: No more: dinosaurs, the dodo ... and Western Auto stores?
Author: Julie Whitehead
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 17, 2003
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 25 Issue: 46 Page: A3(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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William B. Russell opened his Western Auto Store in Bruce more than 40 years ago after working as manager for a Western Auto in Memphis for seven years.
"It's all I know!" Russell said of his 51-year relationship with the company.
But Russell and other long-time Western Auto store owners across the country got the news in October that Advance Auto Parts, owner of Western Auto Supply Company, would no longer supply merchandise and services to the stores in its distribution network as of January 2004--bringing Western Auto's brand to an end after almost a century in business.
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