AutoZone was founded by J.R. Hyde III. He opened Auto Shack in 1979. This was a retail automotive parts store. AutoZone became the official name of the parts store in 1987. In 1991, it had made its debut in the New York stock exchange. It was the first auto parts retailer to store customer warranties in a computer database. IN 1994, AutoZone upgraded their database to work through satellites. This helped with communicating with other stores and it also increased their sales to nearly $1.5 billion. In the next year, AutoZone created their own Durlast battery. In 1919, AutoZone was a fortune 500 organization that also currently has stores in 48 states, including Puerto Rico and Mexico (Eades, Eades, Brenner, Brenner, Eades, & Eades, 2017). They