Diesel rip-off, Coles express Geelong

>>> Phone calls to head office in the past fall on deaf ears.

Why would they give a s h i t?

Rolande ,

I have noticed the same thing in Sydney . They jack the price up and then give their discount off it . I ignore them and go to a genuine discounter.

I think the public are waking up to this .

Willie

good onya stick it to bastards

Once they swallow up all the small business competition this will be the new industry practice....the discount will be an illusion and they have you captive of their anti-competitive behaviour. This country runs on empty political rhetoric when it comes to protecting small consumers and businesses......the system is predicated on exploiting those without market power and influence?? Aw well that's the way it is and it is just not cricket!!

I will never buy from the coles/shell in kununurra, the $10 or so per month can go to a local. The govt and th ACCC and whoever else need to put a stop to this bleep . I think it boarders on discriminatory to get discounts for fuel for buying stuff at coles. there is already a monopoly on cheap groceries in most small towns, and I'm sure there is a lot of price fixing in the cities between coles and woolies as well. keep some competition in the fuel sector if possible.

If you buy something that is not that common, the price is usually inflated due to économies of scale' , if you buy something more common it is in demand so prices increase. Brin on biodiesel and ethanol produced by local farming co-operatives and the like to stick it to the big oil companies and the like. Funny how the car manufacturers recommended against ethanol until people started turning away from the traditional 6 cyl cars, all of a sudden, 10% blends are ok. Nothing changed in the car factories, but reduced sales prompted a change in manufacturers reccomendations. We are all being taken for a lottle ride I feel.

Andrew

It's really interesting here in Shepparton.

A group of independents and businesses like grocers, fruit shops, bakery, butcher and others got behind a program set up by a really switched on local entrepaneur.

If you purchased over $x amount (set by the retailer depending on what they sold) you got a scratchie. That scratchie got you anywhere between 5c and 15c discount off fuel at a couple of local independant servos. You could pool the cards to get 50 cents or even more off and I think it was capped at a reasonable quantity.

It was getting really popular. So much so that I reckon it is being knobbled.

Someone with a good knowledge of law (like maybe a big chain's lawyer) dobbed them in to the gaming mob, who determined there couldn't be an element of chance as it contravened some law regarding games of chance.

Now according to today's Shep News, apparently "they" are trying to get it limited to spend x amount you get 5c, y amount you get 10c and z amount you get 15c off.

Not half as much fun. And people miss out on the warm fuzzy feeling they got from buying a bit of stuff and lunch at the bakery and getting the chance to get 15c of their next tank if they were lucky, and at least 5c if they weren't. Even more at some retailers.

Beauracracy's gone mad. Ba$tards.

this link. For those that have been there Geoff was the drive behind setting up Ardmona Kidstown - the adventure playground between Shep & Mooroopna.

Dave

What's the problem? buy from somewhere else! Simple.

Coles also have the flybuys thing going, so you can cash in 1000points for a further 10c off a litre. So I can put 150litres into the farm truck at 14cpl off their already inflated price. Brings it down to about $1.20 per litre for diesel.

I hate these games they make us play, but if there's no grief, I reluctantly play along.

During a recent trip over to the West (not picking on anyone) when refuelling at the discount outlets, I found that on two occassions, i put more fuel in the tank than their capacity. I figured that what they gave away by means of discount, they easily made up for it with additional fuel sales. As a consequence, after the second occasion, I avoided the supermarket outlets and purchased elsewhere.
As for crying out about fuel costs, at $1.30+ a liter, we only too happily pay for bottled water at exhorbidant prices and don't say a word. If you read the label and find out who is selling the stuff, you would soon realise why we pay so much for it.
After all it us just filtered water from a tap with no processing involved.
OK I'm off my hobby horse now.

The thing is.....with both coles and woollies, when u shop there and u get for ur food and stuff, u r already paying the 4 cents in the pricing of the good u buy. So in fact your not getting a damn cent off at the bouser.
And take note of what truckster said....

In any dusiness.....once the jiants wipe the small business out of business, you wait and see how prices keep rising and quality goes down hill. They wil bleed us dry..and the worst thing is...we r helping them do it right now by shopping there.

You are already seeing a quality drop in the fruit and vegies they carry, sometimes its pathetic how poor the quality of the fruit is.

I just dont buy there anymore.
and now i use bio diesel...im saving heaps anyway and my car has never been happier.

Ange

well i know where they pick up a very nice margin too, all the "goodies" in the servo shop, went in to a shell coles the other day to grab a couple of drinks, well bugger me they were more expensive than the 7 11 rip off prices, 500ml coke was $3 !!, and from memory a 2 lt bollte in thier own supermarket is about $2.20 or so.

I no longer use any of the supermarket scam dockets.

I have allways been sus of them as they don't display their diesel prices till you get to the bouser.