<VV> Re: Walmarts policy on batteries

[J R Read_HML]

Next time (5 yrs?) - turn the tables on them.  Ask what does it fit?  Then 
say - OK, that's perfect, just what I wanted it for!

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Later, JR
'61 Rampside Standard 4/110 (has 51Rbattery)
'65 Monza Convertible 4/140
'66 beater Coupe - icemobile 4/140

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Swiatowy" <mopar@jbcs2.net>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:32 AM
Subject: <VV> Re: Walmarts policy on batteries


> Quite awhile ago I went into an Advance Automotive to get a Group 51R
> Battery. They kept asking what it was for, I replied never mind what it is
> for, Do you have one?
> Now the only reason I went to advance was it was a Saturday and NAPA 
> didn't
> have one on the shelf, couldn't get one til Monday afternoon.
> Argued with the counter clerk, and then the manager for about a half hour
> while he tried to figure out how to use a book as a 61 Rampside was not in
> the computer. They finally arrived at the conclusion that a 51R was the
> wrong battery and in fact I needed a Group 53, and they could not sell me 
> a
> 51 R because it would not be allowed. Of course they didn't have a Group 
> 53,
> and no idea how long or if they could get one................
> I got my 51R from NAPA on Monday...........
> Gary Swiatowy