Self-Service Gas

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3 total messages Started by Jim Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:12

#179

Author: Jim
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:12

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Re: secret speed limit (was: Witnesses to car accident)
By: tommy #0 @boole.att.com (Tommy Reingold) USEnet      
 
> $ ObWanted:  a self-serve gas station.
> That's another topic.  We currently have the lowest gas prices in the
> country.  I doubt self-serve would drop the prices.  (I assume that's
> why you want it.)  I think it would merely raise the price for full
> serve, and there are times when you want full serve.

The real objection to self-service comes from the independent station owners.
They feel that if the major franchise stations are allowed to have
self-service lanes, the big companies who own them will drop prices FURTHER
and drive the independents out of business.  
 
- Jim

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Re: Self-Service Gas

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Author: ken ficara
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:22

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Another justification for the self-service ban -- I have no idea if
this is fact or not, just another possible reason -- is security. Not
of the customers, but of the attendants. Allegedly the lone cashier in
the booth gets robbed more often?

I don't really give a damn. The prices being low in NJ -- as another
poster pointed out -- have to do with taxes and little else. I will
not wait for the clods, and I usually get out and pump my own damn gas
anyway. Ninety percent of the attendants don't care -- it saves them
work. The other ten percent, if they tell me to wait for them, and
they're taking forever, I leave and find another station.

Pumping your own also avoids the problem that occurs when the pump
stops at $9.21, and the attendant wants to push it up to an even $10
and pumps $.50 or so worth of gas all over the side of your car.


Ken Ficara                                        ficara@remus.rutgers.edu
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Re: Self-Service Gas

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Author: Anthony Datri
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 05:19

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>of the customers, but of the attendants. Allegedly the lone cashier in
>the booth gets robbed more often?

What's a cashier?  I'm used to pumps with card-readers on them.

>I don't really give a damn. The prices being low in NJ

Which it isn't.



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