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A friend of mine bought a gas station franchise for a major oil company (in a very large city, I might add), and he'd basically do the same. His price intellige
by slantyyz 9y ago
A friend of mine bought a gas station franchise for a major oil company (in a very large city, I might add), and he'd basically do the same. His price intelligence system is pretty low tech - it involves him hopping in a car and seeing what his local competitors are charging.
- bryondowd 9y agoI used to work at a Wawa gas station where the manager would occasionally send someone out to check the station down the street and make sure we were still undercutting them by a few cents. I assumed that was pretty standard in the industry.
- bmelton 9y agoWhich is funny to me, because Wawa has a few, very effective means of ensuring customer loyalty. Between state-minimum priced cigarettes (for smokers), fee-less ATMS, the awesome, cheap coffee bar, and pretty darn reasonable rates on their hot, prepared food items, I usually prioritize going to Wawa in every circumstance possible, even if gas prices aren't the absolute lowest. I remember when I moved to the Maryland area, hearing everybody rave about what sounded like the dumbest named convenience store I'd ever heard of, and how convinced I was that I'd never fall into that cult of weirdness, but they proved to be too convenient in too many ways for me to ignore them, and now I'm a devoutly loyal Wawa customer.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoIn Florida. Absolutely love Wawa. They're wonderful.
- slantyyz 9y agoFunny -- being a Canadian, my first interpretation of your experience was that you worked at a gas station in Wawa, Ontario. Had to look it up before realizing it's actually the name of a company in the US.