“I just buy my gas with a frequent flier card, so I get the miles and it doesn’t make me mad,” McElroy said cheerily while spending $70 to fill up his white Range Rover last week. “If you don’t look at the price, you don’t know how much it is.”
Then, there’s the customer who screeches away in fury after realizing it’s 8 cents cheaper to pay in cash than with a credit or debit card, an adjustment many retailers began making several months ago to help cut their losses from costly credit card processing fees.
“I’ve gotten every reaction you can think of, from downright pissed off, ‘Screw you,’ to, ‘Fill it up, I don’t care what it costs,’” said Jerry Groth, co-owner of the 76 station at the corner of Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard and Holgate Street last week. “It seems like $4 was the threshold. At over $4, everybody’s concerned.”
After three weeks of gas prices that have held relatively steady, consumers could see prices spike by a few cents from the statewide average of $4.29 just in time for the July Fourth weekend, the same as they do each year before Memorial Day weekend.” (via portlandtribune.com) by Jennifer Anderson
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