11-05-19 21:18 NANCY BACKUS wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Circle K Gasoline
Howdy! Nancy,

 NB> @MSGID: 
 -=> Quoting Ed Vance to All on 10-30-19  11:06 <=-

 EV> I buy Gas at a Shell Gas Station when I have enought Kroger Gas Points
 EV> to get the Ten Cent Discount.
 EV> The Price on the Electric Sign at a Circle K Gas Stations changed SIx
 EV> Cents from Credit to another word (I think called EZ-Pay) that was Six
 EV> Cents less.
 EV> I went inside to pre-pay for some Gasoline and walked out to the car
 EV> to put the Gas in the tank.
 EV> I noticed the Price on the Pump was the higher Credit price, so I went
 EV> back inside and told someone about the higher price and was told
 EV> Circle K has their own refinery now and they don't sell Shell Gasoline
 EV> anymore.

 NB> So they aren't honoring the Kroger 10 cent discount...

I don't know about that because I when I was at that Station my Kroger
Plus Card didn't have enough points to get a discount.

I was just suprised to learn about their EZ-Pay program was for people who
pre-paid for Gas through buying a card way before needing to put Gas in
their car.

 EV> To get the lower price I have to use a Circle K EZ-Pay Card and then
 EV> asked Me if I wanted to buy one.
 EV> I said No, and asked for the money back because I didn't want to pay
 EV> the same price that people who buy their Gas with a Credit Card is
 EV> charged.

 NB> And they are implementing their own "discount" schedule...

If SIX CENTS less is a "Discount Schedule".

 EV> I remember years ago being told by someone at a store that the Charge
 EV> Card Companies give the store Six Cents less than the price on the
 EV> receipt when they turned the receipts in to the Company(s).

 NB> The card companies do charge the merchants for the privilege of letting
 NB> their customers use a card to charge the purchase.... that is still the
 NB> case.... ;)

Thanks for letting my thoughts are the way Credit Cards work.

 EV> That Station used to be a Shell Gas Staton and still has the same
 EV> color markings as the Shell Stations use, Mostly Yellow and a Red
 EV> Stripe.
 EV> In My area some of the Marathon Gas Stations have a Circle K Sign,
 EV> those Stations are colored Blue though.

 NB> We have a few Marathon Gas stations here, but no Circle K, that I know
 NB> of.... ;)

When I started driving in 1965 I bought gas at a Pan-Am Station.
Later they became AMOCO, later the name changed to Standard.
I don't know if Standard is around anymore.

73 de Ed W9ODR              .      .


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