Gas sale!

[dougo]

A couple gas stations nearby are having 6-cents-off-per-gallon sales on weekends. This is just weird.

Comments

[rosminah.livejournal.com]

Fill up your 16 gallon tank, save a dollar! I bet it works to drum up business, too.

[perci.livejournal.com]

A place I used to live near has WILD MONDAYS! They lower gas by 7 cents a gallon on Monday. It forces the station across the street to do the same thing.

And they suck you in with it--I made a point several weeks in a row of always getting gas on Mondays...until I realized that due to traffic patterns, that station is a pain in the butt to drive in and out of, and I was saving 77 cents a week.

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

They seem to be cashing in on people's collective anxieties. People will go there to feel smart and that they have some control over the situation.

Basically, a win-win.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm! So, spend a dollar (or less or more) to get to the gas station with the deal and (or) wait in line (with car possibly running) to get the tank filled....

-- coolkit

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

And while you're waiting in line, your passenger might go inside for a soda or a coffee. I read somewhere that the gas station itself gets more profit from someone buying a cup of coffee than from someone filling a tank.