Originally posted by darmstadt
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Originally posted by darmstadt View Postwhy do you have to ask for a VAT receipt? Why can't it all be on one receipt?
Originally posted by TiroFijo View Post- if you are not buying anything in the shop why don't people use the pay @ the pump? Instead they prefer to go inside and queue thus holding everything up!Comment
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Originally posted by escapeUK View PostThe funny thing about that to me is, where are the petrol stations that sell without VAT? If there were one id use that instead of expensing it.Comment
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Originally posted by TiroFijo View Post- if you are not buying anything in the shop why don't people use the pay @ the pump? Instead they prefer to go inside and queue thus holding everything up!
I now use Morrisons.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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Originally posted by original PM View Postyou know what I find really annoying - when you are waiting to fill up your car and the muppet at the pump has decided to do their weekly shop in the petrol station - I mean by all means by a packect of fags or even rush and get some milk but don't spend 20 minutes mincing around
pointless ignorant feckers
During that time my car was clogging up the pumps, so the next time I did the Sunday morning fill up I pulled the car off the pumps before paying, feeling the considerate citizen and all that.
I got back to the car to find a very annoyed McDonalds manager screaming at me.
Non stop screaming.
In German.
Make that bad German with an awful accent.
He wouldn't shut up, even after I'd apologised and promised not to park in front of his shop again.
I took my time moving the car, simply to annoy him further
After that experience I made sure I didn't fill up at that petrol station on a Sunday unless I was also going to raid the supermarket section.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by Lockhouse View PostWhen I was a kid I worked on a garage forecourt using the petrol pumps doing that (err...approx 35 years ago...). Used to have to check the oil, water and tyres as well (cars were less reliable then). We had the locks on the pumps to keep them pumping as well. I used to be able to stop the pump dead on exactly the right price or number of gallons. Sadly these days the prices move too fast.
It changed in the 80s and 90s though. The oil companies were screwing the small garage owners so much that there wasn't much money in it unless you put a supermarket and bakery on the premises. One local chap was under such pressure from the bank in the recession of the early nineties that he packed it in and told them to run the business themselves. Needless to say it was taken over by the big boys. No confilct of interest there, then.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostMy local Sainsbury's has just moved the petrol station to be nearer the main road yet the didn't install any pay at the pumps, I asked why and was told their customers prefer to pay at the kiosk.
I now use Morrisons.
I next came across them in Switzerland and was struggling to fathom out how they worked. The kind chap who helped me told me I was an idiot for not knowing how they worked, for every country has them. "Not in the UK" I informed him. I'm taliking cash here, not plastic.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by TiroFijo View Post- if you are not buying anything in the shop why don't people use the pay @ the pump? Instead they prefer to go inside and queue thus holding everything up!Coffee's for closersComment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostMy local Sainsbury's has just moved the petrol station to be nearer the main road yet the didn't install any pay at the pumps, I asked why and was told their customers prefer to pay at the kiosk.
I now use Morrisons.Comment
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Originally posted by Support Monkey View PostThe reason they do not like pay at pump is because it decreases sales of other goods, if you pay at the pump you are unlikely to make any spontanious purchasesBehold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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