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[action] 30/9/2021 13:42

Best to try motorway petrol station if it is near buy. They get priority.

[spob] 30/9/2021 12:58

Very true. There was one idiot who phoned in to LBC radio the other day.

He started with his tank 3/4 full.

He decided he wanted his tank filled up to the max.

So he went out looking for fuel to top up.

He spent 6 hours driving around London in the middle of the night.

All of the petrol stations were empty.

He ran out of fuel.

[loganair] 30/9/2021 09:00

Being reported then many drivers are using 1/4 of a tank of petrol driving around looking for petrol and/or just sitting in the queue for petrol.

[spob] 30/9/2021 08:09

Regarding the Asda store mentioned above

They had a tanker delivery last night at 1am.

People queued all night waiting for the petrol station to open in the morning.

This morning they said they are not opening their petrol station because the queues are blocking local roads and disrupting customers wanting to buy food. And also blocking lorries delivering to the store

This is a very large Asda in north west London.

I wonder how many petrol stations have fuel but are having to stay closed because of the disruption the queues are causing.

I know London is probably much worse than the rest of the UK.

But it shows how bad things are in some areas of the country.

[spob] 28/9/2021 13:04

I saw this at an Asda at 6am this morning. And I thought how the hell is anyone going to get into that store for food shopping.

Entrance was totally blocked by a very very very very very long fuel queue. Hundreds of cars blocking both the store and local road junctions.

[spob] 28/9/2021 12:58

There are many Sainsburys stores that have been cleverly designed in such a way that you have to go past the petrol station in order to get in or out of the store.

I’m guessing that clever design must be causing some major disruption to those stores right now, in regard to customers wanting to do their food shopping.

When they have any fuel that is.

[m_kerr] 27/9/2021 20:19

as aldi do about £15m revenue per store, this should result in £1.5bn taken in market share in the next 2 years. lidl also expect to open 140 stores by the end of 2023. they do about £10m revenue a store, so that should take a further £1.4bn. i wouldnt be surprised if they take market share further still, as inflation is taking off which has historically driven people to the discounters.

[loganair] 27/9/2021 11:52

Aldi will create 2,000 jobs and open another 100 stores across the UK as part of a £1.3bn plan to take a larger share of the British grocery market.

Aldi said it would also use the cash to expand its distribution centres, including a new 1.3m sq ft warehouse in Leicestershire, and trial a new checkout-free store in Greenwich in London, where it will use cameras, sensors and artificial intelligence to scan items and charge shoppers.

The company also released its annual results, revealing a 10.2% rise in sales in UK and Ireland to £13.5bn in the year to December 31.

Pre-tax profits fell 2.5% to £264.8m, hit by the cost of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic and keeping down food prices. Operating profit fell 1.2% to £287.7m.

[spob] 26/9/2021 19:44

Do you live on mars ?

[loganair] 26/9/2021 19:42

This afternoon I noticed almost everyone coming out of my local supermarket had large packs of toilet rolls stuffed in their trollies. I would have thought these people would still be wading through all the massive amounts of bog roll they bought last Spring.

Local petrol station still operating normally, no more than usual number of cars at the pumps and buying similar amount of fuel as usual.

[chiefbrody] 26/9/2021 17:54

No need if everyone just buys as they need. Alas, we have millions of peeps with IQ's that are a bit challenged.

[spob] 26/9/2021 08:28

How long before the government wakes up and makes ALL petrol stations impose a £20 to £30 limit with exemptions for key workers obviously.

That's the only way things will get back to normal.

[spob] 26/9/2021 08:23

I said all petrol filling stations would be dry by Monday

I was wrong

All the nearest ones to me are dry now.

There are people queuing at some stations near me. But there is no fuel. They are waiting for the next tanker delivery.

[loganair] 24/9/2021 20:38

EG Group imposing £30 limit on petrol.

[chiefbrody] 24/9/2021 17:42

My local Tesco empty. Independant on the way home empty.Have to go to Sheffield tomorrow. I'm guessing the Motorway ones will be ok since their prices are so obscene, next to nobody uses them lol.

[spob] 24/9/2021 17:39

If everyone fills their tanks rather than just buying what they need, that is enough extra demand to empty every filling station in the country.

The system can only cope with normal demand.

[loganair] 24/9/2021 16:11

News media spreading their usual fear which is creating panic.

My mum has just phoned saying her local supermarket petrol station has just run out of petrol as there has been massive queues of cars there all day filling up and also her local Waitrose has just run out of toilet paper and people are now buying kitchen rolls instead to use as toilet paper.

Don't these people realise there is plenty of stock to go round, however if people start buying several years supply of a product at the same time it doesn't take many people much time to empty the shelves.

[chiefbrody] 24/9/2021 15:04

Yup ridiculous that this is given so much attention. Just arrived at my local Tesco for a Costa and they're queuing big time for fuel.Stupidity breeds stupidity.

[spob] 24/9/2021 14:17

yes but that was last night

[loganair] 24/9/2021 13:43

Last night at my local petrol station only 3 of the 7 pumps had people refueling.

I am just not experiencing or recognising what we're being shown on the TV news when it comes to supermarkets, shelves being empty, queuing for petrol etc as there's absolutely none of this where I am.

[spob] 24/9/2021 13:32

So Sky news and BBC are showing pictures of people queuing for petrol every 2 minutes.

This guarantees all filling stations will be dry by Monday. Lol

[bingaxu] 23/9/2021 23:13

https://www.fool.co.uk/investing/2021/09/23/does-the-rising-sainsburys-share-price-mean-a-takeover-is-waiting-to-happen/

[spob] 23/9/2021 18:12

Never use those things anyway. If they're not broken, then there is usually a queue for them.

Just carry a foot pump in the boot.

[loganair] 23/9/2021 10:22

Sainsbury's petrol stations are now charging 30p for air for tyres when it use to be free. More and more, things that use to be full service are now charging for each separate item.

The price of the basic item/service is kept the same or slightly reduced so seems like the whole service has got cheaper when in fact once one adds all the extra's in that use to come for free with the full service then actually the whole thing has got a lot more expensive - airlines are a prime example of this.