Today's show features:
- Dennis Gingrich, Platform / Group Executive at The Niello Company
- Cody Short, CRO at The Laundry Guy
- Travis Graddon, General Manager at Wilder Auto Center
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[TIMESTAMP] | First up, Dennis Gingrich, Platform Executive at The Niello Company. California's CARS Act is officially live — just over a week in — and Dennis has been bracing for this one for years. So what actually changed on the showroom floor on October 1 that dealers outside California have no idea is coming for them? California says this saves consumers at least 234 million dollars — but what does it cost the dealer? Dennis is operating under it right now, and he's got answers.
[TIMESTAMP] | Then, Cody Short, CRO at The Laundry Guy, stepping in today for Darren. Cintas is swallowing UniFirst in a five-and-a-half-billion-dollar deal — 1.5 million business customers, 375 million in so-called synergies. Translation? Somebody's paying for that. Cody is the guy who cracked open the Wilder contracts and invoices personally — and what he found inside is the kind of thing that makes a GM's jaw drop.
[TIMESTAMP] | And speaking of that GM — Travis Graddon, General Manager at Wilder Auto Center, running five franchises. Uniforms and facility services got annoying enough that he finally went digging. What tipped him over the edge? Stick around.
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