Discount Auto Parts

This is actually an ‘Advance’ Auto Parts now, at this same address:
Terrible service. Came in with a battery (Advance brand) that needed to be replaced. Store was not at all busy. Two employees were making small talk with a female customer and a third was attending to a battery replacement for another customer. I waited with my wife for about 10 minutes and no one even acknowledged I was there. I finally asked the two employees who were making small talk with the customer if one of them might be able to help me and neither of the employees even turned my way, but instead made derisive comments under their breath to the female customer, who then explained how she was a ‘customer’ and she was being helped (despite having no items to purchase or having any kind of conversation regarding anything automotive with staff). I suspect she was an off the clock employee since she was the only one who would even address me. I located another Advance store on my phone, gathered my battery and began to leave. One of the employees finally deigned to offer to help me, but I wouldn’t have taken a battery from that store if they were giving them away for free at that point. I went to the AAP on US19 and Central, where I received decent customer service and would return again. I will never set foot in the Gulfport AAP ever again, and I don’t recommend any else do so either, unless you enjoy being ignored while employees conduct personal conversations with friends/​off duty employees.