End of shopper docket discount on LPG

Gotta love 'em. What I've noticed in Melbourne is the Coles/Shell service stations discounted price advertising (for shopper dockets) now refers to E10, and not standard unleaded. Took me a few refills to realise that the advertised "discount" price did not refer to unleaded.

George

They [ coles + woolworths /safeway ] have now got what they set out to do , you can bet your house on it that slowly but shurely the discounts will become more "enticing" yet with more restrictions , in real terms the discounts are worthless as you have already paid a premium at the checkout ,,

G'day DIO , anyone can apply online to BP & get a free 2c discount card to use at at most BP servo's anywhere, I've had one for about 4 years now - it all helps!.... bpautogas@bp.com, regards, aussiedingo

Over the period of a year you might save $165 (if you buy 80L of LPG a week) with the 4 cents off dockets. But as Axel said, you have already paid the premium at the checkout.

A while back we did the exersise of shopping around for our groceries and bought wisely and saved at least 3 times that, and we now get better quality meat and fruit & veg. And the places we shop now are closer than Coles or Woolies so we save juice there as well. Just my opinion on what has worked for us over the last few years.

Louie

LPG has always been hit and miss for shopper dockets - some garages have always accepted them on LPG where some others have never accepted them since the inception of the dockets. I guess it has something to do with who actually owns the garages - the supermarkets or whether a franchised garage to the supermarkets.

Garry

Dio,
I haven't used a shopper docket for about 18 months now. Couldn't see the point in waiting in line at the servo(burning good diesel, stop, starting) because it was packed. Also the extra fuel used to drive out of my way to save bugger all, about $3.60 a tank load if it was bone dry. About $96 a year. As others have said, the supermarkets have got your discount covered in the pricing on the shelf.
I'd rather support local business, not multinationals, even if I have to pay a bit more.

horses for courses as they say
My local servo is a wollies and I cannot purchase fuel anywhere else cheaper in this town.
I never do a fillup of less than 150 litres so always get my 4 cent/ 8 cent /11 went /20 cent per litre off
that means I save $6 to $30 per fill up.
not sure how many litres i bought last year but I always pay for fuel on card and records show a fuel bill of $ 6600 last financial year so i saved more than a few cents
to get the big discounts you have to outlay big amounts
ie $ 200 of groceries over last week for an 11 cent voucher
or $ 75 of meat for a 13 cent voucher.
we buy food and meat any way so make sure we take advantage of these special offers.
I can get a new bottle of chewy for the console each fill up and save an extra $ off the fuel buy taking advantage of the 4 +4 arrangement.
must admit if the local servo wasnt a caltex/woolies I wouldnt bother.
cheers
howard

OK, it seems nobody has worked this out so here goes. There are 2 different Woolworths fuel outlets. There is the stand alone Woolworths station and then there is the Woolworths/Caltex station which has NEVER given the 4 cents off on LPG. The reason is that they uses Vital gas which doesn't get the kickback. Stick to the regular Woolworths branded outlets and it's not a problem.

mugs - stop falling for it - ir won't get better