Petrol Price Rip-Off Because of Where I Live

atila_the_bun

Just filled up my car with petrol at my local Tesco which is Stowmarket in Suffolk.
I filled the tank up and paid 115.9p per Lt.
Currently the Tesco in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds are selling petrol at 110.9p per Lt. both Tescos are about 14 miles from Stowmarket Tesco either way along the A14.

How can Tesco Justify charging 5p per Lt more? Its not that we are any further away and it cost more to get the petrol there.

A tin of value baked beans still cost the same at any Tesco so why do they charge more for petrol?

I think the reason is that they can and for that I feel like I'm being ripped off.

OK so I know I can buy my petrol some place else but all of the other petrol stations in the town charge the same or more (probably because thats what Tesco charge).

:mad:

Strider590

They compete locally on price..... Nothing else to it.

If you ever visit Ludlow, they have only 1 petrol station near/in the whole town and they charge maybe 15-30p more per litre than the places 20 miles down the road.

Inactive

Tesco ( and others ) charge as much as they can get away with.

Easy cure, don't buy from them, I don't.

abacab

Stowmarket has no PFS at Asda(or didnt when I last shopped there)
Ipswich and Bury have.Its as simple as that.Tesco will get away with what they can.
On a side note,how the Bp garage on the Haverhill Road in Bury keeps going baffles me.They are about 12p a litre more than Asda up the road.
Whenever I see a car filling up there(which isnt often) I feel like asking them to give me the extra fiver they are spending,and I will take the car to Asda for a fill up.

Inactive

Tesco = Every little helps.................. them.;)

lucylucky

In what way was it a "Rip-Off"

Was the price not displayed before you filled up?

Did they add an extra amount that you knew nothing of?

Inactive

lucylucky wrote: »

In what way was it a "Rip-Off"

Was the price not displayed before you filled up?

Did they add an extra amount that you knew nothing of?

Exactly, it is only a "Rip - Off " if they actually charged more than they said they would.

vikingaero

People complain about supermarkets charging different amounts for goods, yet they themselves as self-employed or their employers charge varying amounts for their services and this is never questioned.

atila_the_bun

It may well be elementary stuff but it don’t make it right. What would happen if Tesco did that with every thing they sell?
Just because there is very little competition in the town I pay more for petrol then someone who lives in a neighbouring town. Tesco can manage to keep a tin of baked beans the same price so why not petrol?

bigjl

Maybe the OP should go the 14 miles to the cheaper petrol station and get it there.

I don't blindly fill up near work as it would cost 4 or 5 pence a litre more.

The retail industry will always sell things, including petrol, at the highest price they can, they will only drop prices if it causes a drop in sales.

From memory isn't Stowmarket a slightly more expensive area to buy a house in aswell?

If the demographic of an area tends to have a higher income, then up goes the price, at east in my experience, one reason why I have never filled up in Knightsbridge.

Hintza

We nearly always buy our petrol 15 miles from home for exactly this reason. Get it cheaper when you are passing....simples...