![]() ![]() “I got a lot a lot of faithful customers,” Baranello said. The gas sales drive the repair business and the repair business drives the gas sales - again and again, across decades and generations in some cases. Fred’s is the only one of the three with full-service pumps and the only one that does auto repairs. “They made me a decent deal, so I said yes,” he said.įred’s Auto is the middle of a series of three adjacent gas stations on the main north-south road in the area: The older-generation Stewart’s is immediately south and a large Fastrac is north, just across Storrie Street.īaranello said the close competition hasn’t hurt him. to Stewart’s Shops, which plans to demolish it, probably in February, and build a large next-generation shop to replace the smaller shop it runs next door. ![]() Instead, Baranello sold the property at 134 Market St. “The mom-and-pop shops are depleting because the dealerships are putting everybody out,” he explained Tuesday.Īlso, Baranello’s longtime fuel supplier - Red Kap of Schenectady - recently was acquired by Stewart’s, so he’d have to strike a new supply deal if he wanted to keep the pumps running at Fred’s Auto. ![]() The automobiles that Baranello has fixed for over a half-century have grown increasingly reliant on computer circuitry and the dealerships that sell them are continually finding new ways to capture the market on service. But he won’t be at Fred’s Auto after Jan. ![]()
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