-=> Quoting Ed Vance to Nancy Backus on 11-10-19  21:21 <=-

 EV>> I buy Gas at a Shell Gas Station when I have enought Kroger Gas Points
 EV>> to get the Ten Cent Discount.  The Price on the Electric Sign at a
 EV>> Circle K Gas Stations changed SIx Cents from Credit to another word
 EV>> (I think called EZ-Pay) that was Six Cents less. I went inside to
 EV>> pre-pay for some Gasoline and walked out to the car to put the Gas in
 EV>> the tank. I noticed the Price on the Pump was the higher Credit price,
 EV>> so I went back inside and told someone about the higher price and was
 EV>> told Circle K has their own refinery now and they don't sell Shell
 EV>> Gasoline anymore.
 NB>> So they aren't honoring the Kroger 10 cent discount...

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

Ah... so you didn't check that part out while you were there, since
things had changed... that would have been my next question to them... :)

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

So it works by having you essentially load a card with money so that you
can just swipe it at the pump when you get gas....?

 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...

 EV> If SIX CENTS less is a "Discount Schedule".

Not much of a discount, to be sure... :)
 
 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
 NB>> letting their customers use a card to charge the purchase.... that
 NB>> is still the case.... ;)

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

I don't know for sure if the six cent difference still applies... it
might be a percentage of the bill....
 
 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.... ;)

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

Amoco was American Oil Company, Standard was Standard Oil Company, later
Esso, then later Exxon.... But there are Esso stations still in Canada...

ttyl        neb

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