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My memory is that pay inside was a forced prepay option? My entire adult driving time has been after the advent of card readers being on basically every gas pum
by rtkwe 3y ago
My memory is that pay inside was a forced prepay option? My entire adult driving time has been after the advent of card readers being on basically every gas pump so I'm going off vague childhood memories of going in to pay for my parents.
- Retric 3y agoDepends on the station but pump then pay is still a thing, but seems to be regional as this post from 2023 shows. https://www.cleverdude.com/content/4-things-you-need-to-know-about-prepaying-for-gas/ https://www.cleverdude.com/content/4-things-you-need-to-know...
- gadders 3y agoPump then pay is the default in the UK, but card readers on pumps are becoming more common.
- mhandley 3y agoAnd in most places, what they lose on fuel theft, they more than make up on sales in the petrol station shop which is where they really make their money, so they have little incentive to change.
- jstarfish 3y agoWhen I still had a motorcycle (early 2000s), I'd find a lot of rural stations didn't have modern tech on the pumps, and there were a lot of stations that still allowed pump-then-pay. Some stations just have shitty tech. A station near me fails open if you initiate a credit card transaction, take the pump off the hook, and then abort the transaction.