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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostJust two or more points:
- why no putting the octane levels on the pumps? My car takes 98 octane yet the petrol available is either 97 or has a silly name like Ultimate
- why can't you put the pump in the tank, start pumping and fix it with a little lever so you can go off and wash your windscreen instead of having to stand there holding it all the time?
- why do you have to ask for a VAT receipt? Why can't it all be on one receipt?
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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
All the fuel stations near me particularly the ones that are 1p cheaper per litre have massive queues. Unfortunately they only have one person on the till so if you get some old git (and it is usually an old git) who takes ages paying then everyone is stuck waiting to fill up on the forecourt.
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostTo be precise, what Dave Gorman did was travel from one side of the country to the other, only staying in independent hotels, buying petrol from independents, eating at independents, only calling independent garages when the car broke down - not giving any money to "the man" (apart from when he ate at BK, McDs and Wendy's as punishment for failure).
Which is a bit trickier to manage.
I remember talking to a yank who would only eat in chain restaurants as he liked the standardised quality, he didn't trust family run places.
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostI don't want to be a pedant but sod it, you need one half decent diesel car and one independent fuel station somewhere in the middle of the journey, how hard can that be?
Which is a bit trickier to manage.
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Originally posted by Support Monkey View PostDave Gorman did a very good programe about driving across america only filling up with fuel at independent fuel stations, he realy struggled but did make it in the end, there would be no chance of getting from John ogroats to lands end doing the same thing
The reason we get tulip service, mini supermarkets and few independents is there's no money in petrol, the UK has the cheapest pre tax fuel in Europe apparently.
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Originally posted by CheeseSlice View PostI've hired cars on holidays in Sicily and Cyprus, and in both not only did the attendants from the petrol station fill my tank for me, they also used the clip to leave it filling with the amount I specified, THEN continued to wash my windscreen for me! One place even checked my tyres pressures for me, pointing out that I had a slow puncture...
When it was all done, they even took my payment whilst I sat in the car and returned with the change.
compare that with the UK where you fill your own tank in the freezing cold, often with no squeegee to clean your windscreen, whilst the staff sit in their nice warm, and overpriced Shell shop.
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