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by CPLX 4120 days ago
How come your site thinks this company is the same thing as AutoZone? The original blog post above identifies it as an independent family owned retailer.
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Those are possible matches. None of them matched on address, but they matched on partial business name, city, state, and ZIP. We didn't get a solid match because they use a different D/B/A name than their company name, and we don't have a US D/B/A name list. We're using a marketing-quality database of US businesses for free demo purposes. The high-quality database to get this consistently right costs about $800K a year with daily updates.