AutoZone

I took a battery that was confirmed working by me to be recharged. All autozones offer free recharging. When I came back to get my battery the obviously jerkish employee tells me that my battery is bad, won’t charge, and tries to sell me a battery. I have no doubt that he purposely ruined it because it took him an awful long time to bring out my battery. I have with other employees previously gone inside to where the batteries are charged and it literally takes less than 10 seconds to unhook it and come back. Worst of all, further testing of my own confirmed that the battery had been ruined. Beware

Bad attention, they don’t respect the queue. I have to wait for 30 minutes for my turn and they pass their friends; i’ll NEVER ever will come back there.

I’ve always had good luck with this Autozone location. When the check engine light on my last vehicle came on, I came to Auto Zone and they lent me a diagnostic system free of charge that would allow me to read the message, find out why the light kept coming on, and clear it. When the resistor failed for the A/​C fan on my current vehicle (so the fan for the heater and A/​C was either at full or off, but none of the speeds in between would work), I took the part in and while they couldn’t supply a replacement (that particular part can only be supplied by a dealer), the guy behind the counter was able to Identify it on sight. In other words, the guy working that day wasn’t just a high school kid working behind the counter who knew less than the patrons, he actually knew his stuff and had experience as a mechanic.
On my most recent visit, I only needed a new lamp for my brake light. I walked in, the lamps were in the first display rack, they had a catalog there where you could look up your vehicle model and it would tell you which lamps to purchase, depending on which one was out. There was no line to check out, and I was able to swap out the failed lamp in the parking lot before I left.
I’m not sure if this Autozone has the same policy, but where I grew up, the Autozone stores also gave discounts of something like 10% to all firefighters, paramedics, police officers and other public safety personnel, all you had to do was show them your ID. I always thought that was a very kind gesture on their part.