{"id":3704,"date":"2010-06-14T13:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2010-06-14T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:01:34","slug":"americas_car-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3704","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Car-Mart: Bentonville\u2019s Secret Sauce Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefinancialinvestigator.com\/?p=93\">The Financial Investigator<\/a>: <span><em>Most every day at 802 Southeast Plaza Avenue in Bentonville, Arkansas appears to be a pretty good one.<Br><Br><br \/>\nThat\u2019s because that address houses the headquarters of Americas Car-Mart, an auto retailer that has found the sweet spot, the intersection where a corporation\u2019s business model meets consumer demand and the net income flows like cool, clear water.<Br><Br><br \/>\nFocusing exclusively on the sub-prime auto-buyer, their clean and efficiently-organized used-car lots throughout the south-central and southwest regions offer a stark contrast to the traditionally dodgy experience of buying a used-car; no one at any Americas Car-Mart locale is likely to be mistaken for the Kurt Russell character in Used Cars. The staff is friendly and well-turned out, there is a wide variety of cars, trucks and vans to choose from, the business offices are clean and air-conditioned and, perhaps best of all, the word \u201cno\u201d just doesn\u2019t appear to be used all that often.<Br><Br><br \/>\nFrom an analytical standpoint, the business model appears to be simplicity itself.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Investigator: Most every day at 802 Southeast Plaza Avenue in Bentonville, Arkansas appears to be a pretty good one. That\u2019s because that address houses the headquarters of Americas Car-Mart, an auto retailer that has found the sweet spot, the intersection where a corporation\u2019s business model meets consumer demand and the net income flows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,21,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}