And for the love of god, go to the cheapest station in the area. Enough is enough.
This lad is right.
“Oh, people aren’t buying our additional goods any more? Alright then, let’s downsize that and instead increase the price of the petrol even more to compensate for the loss of that kind of revenue…” – them, probably
How will that influence global oil prices?
Fuel prices are governed by central systems, controlled by the petrol company. Many service stations pay a franchise fee to the brand and the margin they make on fuel alone dosen’t cover the fee, they rely on the bars, coffee and whatever else.
Take your mans advice and just get your fuel, no point at all complaining to the poor scrote behind the counter
Call me a cynic, but he’s wasting his breath. People aren’t gonna engage in this and if they do it’ll be just until they’ve gotten their self righteous fix and then they’ll forget about it. The trucker on the road all day is not gonna stop getting his coffee and sambo. The parents whose kids are bored and start bickering are gonna get crisps and a lucozade to shut them up for 10 mins.
It’s still good advice regardless. Nevermind a boycott. Why would you want to it to your own wallet, buying a sambo for 6 quid you could’ve made if you thought ahead?
Great advice. Let’s all penalise what’s most probably a local business that makes pennies on fuel so it’s only real way of generating income is through the deli, coffee and chocolate. Let’s make sure they don’t stay profitable and so don’t hire local staff and give them jobs who then spend their pay in other local businesses. Bloody marvelous idea.
Lads petrol was €1.73 in Circle K yesterday. Fucking relax like.
He does go on a bit. “I want ye to do one ting fer me. Just one ting. Do dis one ting fer me.”
He should buy a new sofa with all the quids he’s saving from boycotting celefane packaged pastries.
Global economy and government taxes are to blame not the poor minimum wage staff in circle k.
Awful muppet
A pretty bland attempt to be woke by your man.
As a self professed Circle K fan boy I actually thoroughly enjoy their coffee and would consider it the best of the service station coffees. I also think they’re coming up trumps with prices at the moment. Texaco and Maxol have been utter wankers the last while.
Lads you can save so much money on petrol (and fuck the oil companies even more) by taking all the short drives you do and turning them into short cycles.
Just make your point and fuck off.
When I lived in America I worked at a barbecue restaurant that had a “gas station” (as they called it don’t want to get into the semantics of the terms used) at the front of it.
In any case we made much more money from the barbecue. And the garage side of things was more of a gimmick than anything. Employees got a discount on it. And managers got free fuel. But most of the time no one was at the pumps.
However: because they made so much money off of the barbecue (probably the highest earning restaurant I ever worked in) they could just sell fuels for whatever they wanted. So if it was a slow day they’d drop the price to something ridiculous suddenly it was packed in there.
I guess what I’m saying is petrol, diesel, whatever these places are franchised local businesses who likely aren’t making anything off the sale of fuel. and they sell it in the hopes of breaking even and the stuff in the shop or deli (or in that case a restaurant) is where their bread is really buttered.
So I’m saying get the fuel you need. But if you’re about supporting a local business: support them. Buy a coffee, a jambon. Or if you’re not hungry leave it out. But don’t try and make some kind of half hearted statement. You’d only be hurting a local business. Not the oil company, not the government and their taxes.
You can still use the “facility” though!
Yeah that advice would just effect the shop thats at the petrol station not the overall price of fuel. If you really want to stick it to the big petrol companies dont fuel your car.
Go to petrol station, buy petrol and leave – end of message… no other waffle needed
This will make prices go up even more if anything. The high cost is down to the 60% worth of taxes Eamon Ryan pushed for . Most stations make their money off of the stuff inside the shop the fuel just sucks you in. Its so competitive in most places that they make feck all on fuel. Your anger is misdirected. We pay enough tax on our cars. Diesal and Petrol should be taxed like any other goods we buy in the shop . If anything we should be looking to stage a protest.
He’s right.
And if you want to protest the government, go to the bank and take out your money.
Enough people do this and the government will start listening.
The only way to affect change these days is with money. What you buy, or don’t buy and where your money is.
He’s 100% right but this shouldn’t stop at petrol stations. We are being exploited everyday by ‘convenience’ charges and indulging ourselves too much.
Overbuying leading to an increase in costs because we have shown how docile we are and our willingness to pay more. A coffee shouldn’t be 3 fucking euro, a tea shouldn’t be 2.50. A fucking donut no matter what cheap shite you throw in it shouldn’t be nearly a fiver and a pint shouldn’t be 6 fucking euros yet like idiots we keep paying.
Before Covid, the cinema costs were huge, you would pay over 15 euros for a ticket. Last week I went to the cinema and it was 8 fucking euro! nearly 50% drop in price, why? because no one is going to the cinema as often as they did so the market had to adapt to the consumer. The market should always adapt to the consumer and not the other way round as it is currently.
We need to take control of the fucking market or it’ll rob us blind everyday. We need to force change with our pockets, then the politicians won’t be long listening and once we prove we can force change we can finally start making some fucking change in this gone-to-shit country.
This is ridiculous. Father has a spar/texaco station. He makes nothing on fuel, it acts basically as a pull factor, people come in and then he can make profit on confection/deli/grocery. The prices went up last week from Valero supplier. He had to raise his prices, the money was knocked off by the government then but he had to wait until his next deliver else he would have lost thousands. The fuel in the pumps has already been supplied at the higher price. Got a delivery this morning though and then could lower, prices now at 1.84 and 1.93. Maybe some stores were acting the cunt, but he had to print of the supply price from Valero to show people when they started to give staff grief.
Who’s this balloon and why would his opinion be of any worth?
TIL that a lot of people regularly buy additional stuff whenever they get their petrol.
95% of the time I just pay at the pump and leave. Why would I voluntarily have another interaction with a person in a shop?
The best advice I have heard so far. Not alone that but its all fat food, overly done and left to dry in the glass case. I make 12 berry muffins a week and freeze them like they do. It cost me the best of 18.00 euro in a garage. At home including electricity 4 to 5 euro maybe 6 euro max. As for coffee? I make ice coffee and bring it with me in a flask. 5 coffees a week 13 to 15 euro. So realistically most spend 25.00 a week on total shit food at them places.
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Smart man. I will tell my fellow canadians
And for the love of god, go to the cheapest station in the area. Enough is enough.
This lad is right.
“Oh, people aren’t buying our additional goods any more? Alright then, let’s downsize that and instead increase the price of the petrol even more to compensate for the loss of that kind of revenue…” – them, probably
How will that influence global oil prices?
Fuel prices are governed by central systems, controlled by the petrol company. Many service stations pay a franchise fee to the brand and the margin they make on fuel alone dosen’t cover the fee, they rely on the bars, coffee and whatever else.
Take your mans advice and just get your fuel, no point at all complaining to the poor scrote behind the counter
Call me a cynic, but he’s wasting his breath. People aren’t gonna engage in this and if they do it’ll be just until they’ve gotten their self righteous fix and then they’ll forget about it. The trucker on the road all day is not gonna stop getting his coffee and sambo. The parents whose kids are bored and start bickering are gonna get crisps and a lucozade to shut them up for 10 mins.
It’s still good advice regardless. Nevermind a boycott. Why would you want to it to your own wallet, buying a sambo for 6 quid you could’ve made if you thought ahead?
Great advice. Let’s all penalise what’s most probably a local business that makes pennies on fuel so it’s only real way of generating income is through the deli, coffee and chocolate. Let’s make sure they don’t stay profitable and so don’t hire local staff and give them jobs who then spend their pay in other local businesses. Bloody marvelous idea.
Lads petrol was €1.73 in Circle K yesterday. Fucking relax like.
He does go on a bit. “I want ye to do one ting fer me. Just one ting. Do dis one ting fer me.”
He should buy a new sofa with all the quids he’s saving from boycotting celefane packaged pastries.
Global economy and government taxes are to blame not the poor minimum wage staff in circle k.
Awful muppet
A pretty bland attempt to be woke by your man.
As a self professed Circle K fan boy I actually thoroughly enjoy their coffee and would consider it the best of the service station coffees. I also think they’re coming up trumps with prices at the moment. Texaco and Maxol have been utter wankers the last while.
Lads you can save so much money on petrol (and fuck the oil companies even more) by taking all the short drives you do and turning them into short cycles.
Just make your point and fuck off.
When I lived in America I worked at a barbecue restaurant that had a “gas station” (as they called it don’t want to get into the semantics of the terms used) at the front of it.
In any case we made much more money from the barbecue. And the garage side of things was more of a gimmick than anything. Employees got a discount on it. And managers got free fuel. But most of the time no one was at the pumps.
However: because they made so much money off of the barbecue (probably the highest earning restaurant I ever worked in) they could just sell fuels for whatever they wanted. So if it was a slow day they’d drop the price to something ridiculous suddenly it was packed in there.
I guess what I’m saying is petrol, diesel, whatever these places are franchised local businesses who likely aren’t making anything off the sale of fuel. and they sell it in the hopes of breaking even and the stuff in the shop or deli (or in that case a restaurant) is where their bread is really buttered.
So I’m saying get the fuel you need. But if you’re about supporting a local business: support them. Buy a coffee, a jambon. Or if you’re not hungry leave it out. But don’t try and make some kind of half hearted statement. You’d only be hurting a local business. Not the oil company, not the government and their taxes.
You can still use the “facility” though!
Yeah that advice would just effect the shop thats at the petrol station not the overall price of fuel. If you really want to stick it to the big petrol companies dont fuel your car.
Go to petrol station, buy petrol and leave – end of message… no other waffle needed
This will make prices go up even more if anything. The high cost is down to the 60% worth of taxes Eamon Ryan pushed for . Most stations make their money off of the stuff inside the shop the fuel just sucks you in. Its so competitive in most places that they make feck all on fuel. Your anger is misdirected. We pay enough tax on our cars. Diesal and Petrol should be taxed like any other goods we buy in the shop . If anything we should be looking to stage a protest.
He’s right.
And if you want to protest the government, go to the bank and take out your money.
Enough people do this and the government will start listening.
The only way to affect change these days is with money. What you buy, or don’t buy and where your money is.
He’s 100% right but this shouldn’t stop at petrol stations. We are being exploited everyday by ‘convenience’ charges and indulging ourselves too much.
Overbuying leading to an increase in costs because we have shown how docile we are and our willingness to pay more. A coffee shouldn’t be 3 fucking euro, a tea shouldn’t be 2.50. A fucking donut no matter what cheap shite you throw in it shouldn’t be nearly a fiver and a pint shouldn’t be 6 fucking euros yet like idiots we keep paying.
Before Covid, the cinema costs were huge, you would pay over 15 euros for a ticket. Last week I went to the cinema and it was 8 fucking euro! nearly 50% drop in price, why? because no one is going to the cinema as often as they did so the market had to adapt to the consumer. The market should always adapt to the consumer and not the other way round as it is currently.
We need to take control of the fucking market or it’ll rob us blind everyday. We need to force change with our pockets, then the politicians won’t be long listening and once we prove we can force change we can finally start making some fucking change in this gone-to-shit country.
This is ridiculous. Father has a spar/texaco station. He makes nothing on fuel, it acts basically as a pull factor, people come in and then he can make profit on confection/deli/grocery. The prices went up last week from Valero supplier. He had to raise his prices, the money was knocked off by the government then but he had to wait until his next deliver else he would have lost thousands. The fuel in the pumps has already been supplied at the higher price. Got a delivery this morning though and then could lower, prices now at 1.84 and 1.93. Maybe some stores were acting the cunt, but he had to print of the supply price from Valero to show people when they started to give staff grief.
Who’s this balloon and why would his opinion be of any worth?
TIL that a lot of people regularly buy additional stuff whenever they get their petrol.
95% of the time I just pay at the pump and leave. Why would I voluntarily have another interaction with a person in a shop?
The best advice I have heard so far. Not alone that but its all fat food, overly done and left to dry in the glass case. I make 12 berry muffins a week and freeze them like they do. It cost me the best of 18.00 euro in a garage. At home including electricity 4 to 5 euro maybe 6 euro max. As for coffee? I make ice coffee and bring it with me in a flask. 5 coffees a week 13 to 15 euro. So realistically most spend 25.00 a week on total shit food at them places.