Sonic Automotive reviews

How they do trade-ins (controlling it from corporate) is absolutely stupid; along with the pricing formula.

Quality of salespeople, however is on a downward slide as a result of corporate and regional budget cuts. This in time will bring what is a relatively decent environment, back to the mean. To keep quality and integrity in tact, corporate must pay less attention to fluciation in sales cycle via budgets and more ATTENTION to the quality of the capital (human) that if kept in place will smooth out the gyrations of slower sales due to economic cycles and gyrations. If not......the impact of the cycling process, will deepen and be come much more embedded, making recovery extremely difficult. This in turn will increase the difficulty of upper managements decision making and eventual outcomes to the shareholders.