prolly think it's good buisness on his part....if he gets the volume in that exceeds the shell station...and it'd be nice to think the guy isn't some greedy oil fuck bending everyone over the barrel(no pun intended) to pay ridiculous prices at the pump...good 4 the lil man....not a fan of big buisness
That could be it. When gas was in the $4 range there was a huge spread between the convenience stores that still needed to sell coffee and hot pockets, and the garages that would sell oil changes no matter if the customer stopped for gas or not
How long has it been this much? Could be spending a few months trying to build loyalty before raising prices
Is there a surcharge to use credit card?
There is one station on my route to work that is always the absolute lowest in the city. Right at or under national average, when NV as a whole is slightly over. Doesn't fluctuate much -- right now only about four cents cheaper than across the street, but for a while the difference was over 10 cents. I don't question it too much
they most certainly hope to make it up on the items in the store.....they give you a .10 break on gas, but then make .89 selling you a .99 fountain drink ......
If EVERYONE just bought gas, they wouldnt be able to do it for long.....and i doubt he's "losing" money on gas, just not making as much profit as guy down the street
If EVERYONE just bought gas, they wouldnt be able to do it for long.....and i doubt he's "losing" money on gas, just not making as much profit as guy down the street
well I'm not an oil or gas expert by any means but I think i can say that it shouldn't really matter that this station is an independent station. Fact is almost everybody gets their gas from the same place so he probably is paying the same as everybody else for the gas. In reality in your city the BP, Shell, Exxon, Hess ect. stations all get their gas from the same place. Also alot of the brand name gas stations are really not owned by that company. Most of them are independently owned. Take BP for example. There are over 13,000 BP stations in the U.S. BP currently only owns about 700 of them, and they are activly trying to sell those. The rest are owned by regular independent business guys. This is why when people say they are going to boycott BP it pisses me off. You aren't hurting BP, you're hurting the little guy that owns that station. On top of that the gas that is at a BP station isn't necessarily BP gas. It could very well be Hess of Shell or Exxon gas that is just at a BP station. And the same is also true the other way. You could very well be buying BP gas when you go to that Exxon station trying to boycott BP. Well technically it is BP gas at a BP station. The way it works is this. All these staions buy gas from the same place and then it becomes "their" brand of gas when they put their additives into the gas. So fact is, BP is selling alot of gas to Shell, Exxon or whoever than those companies put their additives into the gas and that make it Shell gas ect. But in reality BP made a profit by selling the gas.
So this guy is probably just making less money to try and build up a loyal customer base. Gas stations don't make a bulk of their money on selling gas anyway. Its all about the business inside.
So this guy is probably just making less money to try and build up a loyal customer base. Gas stations don't make a bulk of their money on selling gas anyway. Its all about the business inside.
