Monro Lost Money While Maintenance Grew

Originally aired 2026-10-30 on the Mobile Oil Change Industry podcast.

Monro just lost money while its maintenance sales grew. Tyreese takes the quarter apart and lays out the six-step playbook for independents.

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Key Takeaway 1

Look. Yesterday, Thursday, October twenty-ninth, one of the biggest service chains in America told Wall Street it lost money. And buried inside that bad quarter is the best news an independent operator like you or me has gotten all month. So let us take it apart properly, because the headline alone will mislead you.

Key Takeaway 2

The company is Monro. You know the names on the buildings: Monro Auto Service and Tire, Mister Tire, Tire Choice, Car-X. A company that started as a single muffler shop in Rochester, New York, back in nineteen fifty-seven, and grew into a national chain. On Thursday they reported their second quarter of fiscal twenty twenty-seven, which is the three months that ended in September. Revenue came in at two hundred eighty-three point six million dollars. That is down one point eight percent from the same quarter a year ago. Comparable store sales, meaning stores open at least a year, fell one point eight percent too. July was down one percent, August down three percent, September flat. And the bottom line flipped from profit to loss. A year ago they earned eighteen cents a share. This quarter ...

Key Takeaway 3

Now here is the thing. When a chain that size bleeds, the lazy take is that the whole industry is hurting. That is wrong. Look one layer deeper, because the split inside Monro's own numbers tells you exactly where the money still is.

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Tyreese Burton is the owner-operator of MOMS Mobile Oil Change in the Philadelphia area and host of the Mobile Oil Change Industry daily podcast. He covers the business of mobile automotive service — pricing, operations, fleet contracts, and industry shifts — from the driver's seat.

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Monro Lost Money While Maintenance Grew