Arizona republican., 1921-02-13
Western Auto Supply Co. Is Link In Big
 Chain-Store System

Automobile owners of Arizona will be interested to know that the Western Auto Supply Agency of Phoenix is a link in the chain of one of the biggest and most prosperous Auto Supply Chain-store concerns in the country; one which is expanding rapidly while other business is suffering from the general business depression. Their home office at Los Angeles has recent ly been greatly enlarged, their Long Beach, California, store has recently been doubled in size and their Oakland, California, store is soon to be re- modelled and enlarged. Arrangements are being made to open other stores as rapidly as possible.
 Through their many stores the Western Auto Supply Agency is do- ing an annual business in excess of s4,000, ,000, but on their former capital they were not able to expand as rapidly as they desired and to open new stores as fast as they wanted to; therefore, recently they capitalized at s3.000,0 900 in order that they might be able to expand and progress in more rapid manner.
 The first branch store to be opened after the beginning of this new capi- talization was in San Diego and others are to follow in rapid succession all up and down the coast
 The growth of the Western Auto Supply Agency has been a most re- markable one and the history of this concern reads more like fiction than fact, but 1t only goes to show what can be accomplished when real service is being offered and given to the peo- pie.
 Getting an idea and sticking to 1t giving the public something they want and need, giving them quality mer- chandise and above all. always keeping faith with the public" is the explana- ton given by MT. Pepperdine for the continued growth of his business, a business which grew from a desk in a garage in Kansas City to one of the largest in the world in a short space of 12 years.
 MT. Pepperdine had worked as a boolxkeeper for an automobile tire | company in Kansas City and during this period of employment he saw l what he thought was big opportunity
 offered in mail order and retail auto
 accessory field.
 1 He had visions of building up an or 1 ganization whereby he would be able
 to buy direct from the manufactures
 and sell to the consumer, thus cutting
 out the expense of the broker, the l jobber, the travelling salesman and other middlemen, with d consequent
 saving of from 20 to 40 per cent or
 practically everything that the motor
 ists might have to buy.
 Of course, in the first place, it had 1 to be started in small way, but MT
 Pepperdine believed the farmers would be interested in this saving. and, there fore, tried to interest them first il l the mail order way with the result that it was a success right from the
 start, until today this concern through out their various stores operate one oi l the largest mail order businesses il I the world, dealing exclusively in auto 1 mobile supplies and accessories. ITO supply all these stores witf merchandise, it is necessary to buy 1T l large quantities and naturally, wher you boy in the enormous quantities l that we do, prices are made to us that
 could never be made to smeller con
 cerns, with the result that our GUS l toners receive the benefit of this great buying power" says George Pepper
 dine, president of the Western Auto 1 Supply Agency.
 we maintain our central buying house in Chicago. the heart of the
 automobile accessory manufacturing l business of this country and they se- cure the best prices obtainable on