Maybe komifornia dealers started accepting EBT to get some extra coin
It has nothing to do with “komifornia” “Pennsa-Tucky”, or any other place. It’s all about the “Automall-Walmart’s” taking over. Dudley Perkins HD is now San Francisco HD. “Lane Splitter HD is now San Jose HD”. HD set what some small dealers see as unreasonable standards. They are required to have so many feet of space, and carry so much stock and inventory. The small places couldn’t do that and either shut down, folded in with other dealers, or were bought out by the mega auto dealer conglomerates.
They are doing what Walmart did, squeezing out the mom and pops stores with strategically placed mega stores. Then selling stuff from Asia and Central America just like a Walmart. It’s the new American model, capitalism at its finest. It used to be when you walked into the Harley dealership, the owner or one of his family members would come and say hi. They would ask you how you were doing, and how your friends and family are. They talked about everything but motorcycles and accessories. They saw you as a friend. Now when you walk into an HD dealer, you are descended upon by 4 hungry salesmen circling you like sharks.
We did this to ourselves when we put making profits more important than people.