Getting Fuel

[PunyHumans!!!]

I thought Western Australia still had to shovel coal to make their vehicles move...

Nah, its still horse drawn over here

 

[Crooza]

when it comes to getting fuel i pay for convenience.. flipping no chance im gonna wait in a line 10 cars deep to save 5c a litre on fuel.

Totally agree with you on this. Only a few servos where I live most of the time anyhow, but when down in Perth be stuffed if I would hunt around to save a few bucks while waiting at a servo for 20 mins

 

[PunyHumans!!!]

No doubt its a hassle hunting around, convenience is good and yeah, it doesn't really make a huge difference budget wise. Still its rather odd to me that up my end of Perth you have one BP station retailing fuel for $1.30 yet several hundred meters ahead is Shell/Coles Express or whatever it goes by these days and its going for $1.15 or thereabouts. The Shell station is the one thats quiet.

 

[Niximus]

No doubt its a hassle hunting around, convenience is good and yeah, it doesn't really make a huge difference budget wise. Still its rather odd to me that up my end of Perth you have one BP station retailing fuel for $1.30 yet several hundred meters ahead is Shell/Coles Express or whatever it goes by these days and its going for $1.15 or thereabouts. The Shell station is the one thats quiet.

I noticed this phenomenon when I worked in a servo. If nobody was in the forecourt it could stay that way for a while. However, if one person came in the likelihood of more following increased.

I thought of it as the sheep principle. People driving along see other people in the servo and they follow. If it has more people there they are more likely to follow to that one than the empty one.

We were just down the road from a competitor who was smaller but always matched our prices. We'd be flat out and he'd have nobody.