Parts fail

[GoldOxide_imp]

Most dealers these days only stock fast moving service parts.
Dealer can order parts from Honda and get them in one to two days.
The internet has made a trip to the deal as obsolete as rotary dial telephones.
Why wast time driving to a dealer only to find they don't stock anything.

As for the dealer business model; the mega dealers dominate the landscape.
Going to a mega dealer is like shopping at Walmart.
The days of the single model line family wonder dealer is gone for ever.

Here's a rant. Wishing to support my local brick and mortar store, I went into a local Honda dealership, one of the largest in SoCal, on Beach Blvd in HB, to get a set of brake pads, front and rear. The parts guy said they only have the front, no rears. The rear is what I really want. They can order it, he said, but that would be another trip. I left. A few days later, I went into another shop, Del Amo MS on Cherry in LB. The had one side of the front, they can order the rest, etc. I see why riders buy online.

I find it odd that they had front pads for your CB1100 and not rears.
The rear pads used on the CB1100 are common to a hundred other Honda models.
Go figure.

And there's the rub. If you're the dealer, why stock anything when most people will order online and you'll end up with a large inventory you've had to pay for and can't shift?

And there's the rub. If you're the dealer, why stock anything when most people will order online and you'll end up with a large inventory you've had to pay for and can't shift?
And that is totally correct if you are running a business. I suppose the global online supply chain (the internet?) has to fail before local warehousing increases - but I suspect the item costs will too.