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[Doctor Gollum]

At the supermarket I shop in, you pick up a scanner on the way in, scan and pay on the way out. No need for any human interaction.
Similarly, the fuel is card only. No silly kiosks to be seen.

Downsides of kiosks at supermarket fuel stations is their dogged determination to hang on to the 20 year old £99 limit.

Prices have somewhat increased since then

Where do you shop? No such nonsense hereabouts...

[Mister Rog]

The media are at it again scaring people with fuel prices.

They have posted pictures in Doncaster of large queue's

Prices arround £1.75 Litre all time high.

Possibly will hit £2.00 per litre.

Tesco, West Wales. Diesel £172.9

[TheBoy]

At the supermarket I shop in, you pick up a scanner on the way in, scan and pay on the way out. No need for any human interaction.
Similarly, the fuel is card only. No silly kiosks to be seen.

Downsides of kiosks at supermarket fuel stations is their dogged determination to hang on to the 20 year old £99 limit.

Prices have somewhat increased since then

Where do you shop? No such nonsense hereabouts...

Sorry, I meant those without kiosks, ie pay at pump only.  Which round here, most of them are, in line with most newish supermarkets.

[Doctor Gollum]

I never use pay at pump. Maybe that's the problem... 

[TheBoy]

I never use pay at pump. Maybe that's the problem... 

You would round here. Unless you like cycling and walking.

[Doctor Gollum]

I take it you're still banned from the BP then... If the kiosk isn't open I buy somewhere else or fuel up when it is.

[TheBoy]

I take it you're still banned from the BP then... If the kiosk isn't open I buy somewhere else or fuel up when it is.

The BP only normally has fuel when its a full moon and nought on at Silverstone.  Obviously lately, they've had bugger all.

But they always have tepid coffee and M&S food.


Which is why nobody buys fuel there. That, and the prices on the board are 15ppl more than anywhere else, though said prices are irrelevant, as they never have the stuff.

So you're stuck with Sainsburys (no kiosk, but all 6 pumps normally working when they have fuel) or Tesco (kiosk open for limited hours during the day, else pay at pump, but often a 20-30 minute queue due to long term faulty pumps...   ...or double the queung time if Tesco are having a 5p a litre off offer when you do your weekly shop).


So, you get used to Sainsburys (or Tesco, when its quieter but kiosk closed) and the £99 limit around these parts. Or you use non fossil fuelled modes of transport, like walking or cycling. Or even EV if you don't need to leave town.

[Raeturbo]

I’m really lucky my mates garage has lpg and it’s only a swallows flight away😎

[ronnyd]

I’m really lucky my mates garage has lpg and it’s only a swallows flight away😎

Don.t swallows migrate from North Africa? 

[Raeturbo]

Right first time Monty

[TheBoy]

I’m really lucky my mates garage has lpg and it’s only a swallows flight away😎

Its why TBE had to go.  There is a sort of garden centre that sells it about 15 miles away, but they have very limited openings hours.  Next nearest LPG is about 30 miles away, in the wrong direction.

[Raeturbo]

You must have been gutted I would have been☹️

[TheBoy]

You must have been gutted I would have been☹️

The writing was on the wall for years, so was more than prepared when the day came.

BP started pulling it from virtually all their stations years ago. Then the local Countrywide outlet's pump failed, and after a couple of years asking when they were going to fix it, they declared they wouldn't.  Then Shell's decision to start removing pumps...

Mrs TheBoy is still gutted about TBE (or Chav, as she called it).  But its gone to help keep another 2 and a half Omegas going

[Andy B]

I never use pay at pump. Maybe that's the problem... 

You would round here. Unless you like cycling and walking.

Most local ASDA are pay at pump only ie no kiosk.

I had to pay inside at Tesco the other day ... fault with their pump .... it's the first time in over 2 years since I've stepped foot inside to pay.

[Andy B]

I never use pay at pump. Maybe that's the problem... 

you like to use cash for everything don't you ....