Comments on: The Year of the Civic http://la-florecita.com/2010/01/18/the-year-of-the-civic/ Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:39:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pam http://la-florecita.com/2010/01/18/the-year-of-the-civic/#comment-644 Pam Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:32:06 +0000 http://la-florecita.com/?p=1176#comment-644 "...think there’s a relationship between the median income of a neighborhood and its proximity to an Auto Zone? Just asking." I am here to tell you: yes, there is. I used to work with an account director who came to us from, um, Auto Zone or Advance Auto Parts, I can't remember which. And they definitely have a strategy of placing their stores in low income neighborhoods, preferably with large minority populations. Because apparently rich white people don't change their own wiper blades or add power steering fluid on a weekly basis. Which I guess makes me a Poor? “…think there’s a relationship between the median income of a neighborhood and its proximity to an Auto Zone? Just asking.”

I am here to tell you: yes, there is. I used to work with an account director who came to us from, um, Auto Zone or Advance Auto Parts, I can’t remember which. And they definitely have a strategy of placing their stores in low income neighborhoods, preferably with large minority populations. Because apparently rich white people don’t change their own wiper blades or add power steering fluid on a weekly basis. Which I guess makes me a Poor?

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