Morrisons starts charging for air at petrol stations - MSE News

Former_MSE_Naomi

Morrisons has scrapped a scheme which offered customers free air for their tyres when they spent £15 or more on fuel at its petrol stations...

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BoGoF

Does this really merit a thread......

Quentin

Good news for electric car owners though

They have halved the cost of air from 20 to 10p/min (for all vehicles irrespective of whether or not they use Morrison fuel)

Car_54

Slow news day ...

Inner_Zone

This happened at Reading about six months ago when they refurbished the petrol station. Old news.

RichardD1970

Haven't used air at a petrol station since I was a kid blowing up an innertube to take down the river.

Norman_Castle

:eek: I'm dreading the next RPI figures. Brexit, Trump, Boris, global warming and now Morrisons charging for air. We are doomed, dooooomed.

Paul_Herring

First the calls for increased tax on alcohol and tobacco, then fat tax, sugar tax and plastic tax, now we finally have an fresh-air-tax...

forgotmyname

Paul_Herring wrote: »

First the calls for increased tax on alcohol and tobacco, then fat tax, sugar tax and plastic tax, now we finally have an fresh-air-tax...

Are you blaming Brexit? Would the air still be free is we stayed in the EU?

oldagetraveller

My nearest Morrisons is about 20 miles away. Now that they are going to charge for air that's definitely confirmed the decision that I'll never shop there!
Not that I did in the first place.
Use a damn footpump.

Ebe_Scrooge

My local Morrisons stopped giving free almost a year ago.

What a lot of people people don't realise is that air isn't free. Well, OK, air is free, but a compressor is an expensive piece of kit, and it needs maintenance. It could be argued that a large company could swallow up the costs, but at the end of the day, they're a business not a charity. If offering free air doesn't translate to increased sales, what's their incentive ?

Anyhow, buy a foot pump from Argos for a fiver, problem solved. With the added advantage that you can inflate your tyres in the comfort of your own driveway :-)