How come you can do your weekly shopping in most of these but can't buy a bulb or windscreen wiper for your car when you need one?!
2007-09-28 21:54:35 · 8 answers · asked by ChocLover 7 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
I know, you used to be able to buy things like bulbs, oil, and minor car repair kit in petrol stations, but not now. Disposeable barbecues, yes, emergency exhaust bandages, no.
I think the reason is that such a high percentage of the population nowadays is so completely clueless about even basic car maintainance, it's just not worth their bother selling any of that stuff, some people I know don't even know how to check/top up the oil in a car, and I'm talking about guys who've been driving for 10 years!
2007-09-29 01:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is the only way petrol stations can make any money, the margin on fuel is peanuts and one new pump can cost up to £10,000. As for replacing an underground tank......... That's when all but the busy ones sell the site for building plots, or if a traditional garage have the tanks filled in and just do car repairs. The fuel companies will not make small deliveries anyway.
2007-10-05 09:17:16 · answer #2 · answered by fred35 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HAHAHAHA that is so true but the food that they sell in their shops is so dear that the wipers etc would probably be 3 or 4 times the rrp but you would pay it if you were stuck.
We should form a union
:):)
2007-10-01 05:19:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our local petrol stations sell take out breakfasts..
try paying for petrol when there is a queue of hungry lorry drivers waiting for a feed...lol
2007-09-28 22:06:22 · answer #4 · answered by Cassy5 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
More profit in fast turnover items. They're now "shops in a pertol station", rather than "petrol station shops" IYSWIM.
2007-09-28 22:12:36 · answer #5 · answered by Steve C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can at the one near where I work, but you have to pay at leat twice as much as if you'd bought it from Halfords....and then some.
And why do you have to re-mortgage your house when you have to buy one for those tasteless triangular sarnies they sell. How are they allowed to charge twice as much as anywhere else?
2007-09-29 05:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by Seed Plower 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i know, i need some oil recently and instead on the shelf were the oil should have been was cereal???
2007-09-28 22:02:40 · answer #7 · answered by jadeybaby 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
law of the sod
2007-09-28 21:57:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋