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throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com 10 months agoRight, but the in order for the other station to not go out of business they have to match. But are incentivised to beat that price by a further 10c to increase the amount of business they get See where I’m going?
APassenger@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If there’s competition, yes.
If there’s scarcity, where the supplier side has more leverage, the math changes. They may well just volunteer to make more profit.
Where I live, the difference of one block is 50 cents over two intervals. One number on this street, 50 cents cheaper a block further and another 50 cents cheaper another block down. $1 in difference.
They’re all in business and have been this way for years.
throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
I actually don’t believe you. $1 difference in petrol price and people still go to the expensive one? You’d have to be a moron surely
APassenger@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not telling you where I live, but it’s near an interstate.
I’m not lying and I don’t enjoy the accusation.
You also, after the veiled ad hom, did nothing to address the topic.
throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
That’s not really an ad hom. I don’t think you run a petrol station, so I’m not calling you a moron
It just economically make no sense that you’d have 3 different businesses that close together with wildly different prices. Like who would ever go to the expensive one? And why?