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re: First Buc-ee's outside Texas getting sued for low gas prices
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:15 am to AUjim
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:15 am to AUjim
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Oasis is alleging that Buccees is selling gas below cost, which per that particular statute, would be illegal, not that gas can't be sold for less than $2.
Correct, the public policy reasoning is that the use of predatory market penetration prices can drive out smaller businesses which can't lose money on each fuel sale and when they are gone prices to the consumer can go above what a more diverse market would charge. Gas is a commodity that you really use the Walmart method to strongarm lower wholesale prices and since the margins are so low you have to sale at a loss to grab large portions of the market.
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Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:16 am to BRUNNIN4
They were planning on putting one at the now infamous "Golden Corral Exit" but then the flood happened along with some unfriendly business attitudes in our local gov't.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:23 am to IAmNERD
The profit margins aren't in the gas, it's in the groceries.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:30 am to sta4ever
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What kind of communist shite is this
Democrat type shite
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:33 am to Wtodd
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Democrat type shite
I am willing to bet the original push for this legislation was from state Republicans.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:34 am to TejasHorn
That’s the best free marketing they could have hoped for.
Also gas stations almost always open with below market gas prices for a few weeks to get people’s attention and alter their usual fueling habits since most people go to the same few places every time.
It’s like science. And marketing. And psychology and shite.
Also gas stations almost always open with below market gas prices for a few weeks to get people’s attention and alter their usual fueling habits since most people go to the same few places every time.
It’s like science. And marketing. And psychology and shite.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:45 am to IAmNERD
Sand mountain?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:45 am to TejasHorn
the walmart and competing gas station across the street have prices under $2 right now in baldwin county. has been so for weeks.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:48 am to TejasHorn
jesus christ bama..get your shite together
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:49 am to TejasHorn
I had to stop filling up at Buckees, I stop there for everything else, but the gas is crappy. I average 1 to 2 miles less per gallon even when using their premium. And if I fill up six or seven consecutive tanks there my truck will idle rough
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:49 am to AUjim
Ah, that makes sense.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:50 am to Drank
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jesus christ bama..get your shite together
yep, that'll happen
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:51 am to UCFACTS4LIFE
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Sand mountain?
No, I cant get you any meth. Sorry.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:52 am to TejasHorn
Wait, so the fuel companies in Alabama have colluding to keep prices high? Isn't that text book price fixing and very against the law?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:53 am to TejasHorn
Think this is pretty much part of their strategy when they open a new location. They opened one up close to us across from a Chevron and gas and diesel prices were lower by $.20 - $.22 a gallon for about a week before Chevron responded. They had a price war that went on for about 5-6 months. Eventually both of them came up but Buc-ees still has the lowest price around here. Chevron is 1 or 2 cents higher usually.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:53 am to TheCaterpillar
quote:No
Wait, so the fuel companies in Alabama have colluding to keep prices high? Isn't that text book price fixing and very against the law?
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:53 am to TejasHorn
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First Buc-ee's outside Texas getting sued for low gas prices
That's what they get for bailing out of the Baton Rouge location.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:54 am to TejasHorn
I know it is foolish to try to justify any law on the basis of ethics that is passed by any legislative body. But can anyone explain to me why selling cheap gas is against the public good?
Maybe they can offer a free bag of Buc-ees nuggets with any gas purchase and some jerky if the purchase is above a certain amount. I guess at that point, the legislature would go after then for offering addictive stuff as gas premiums.
Maybe they can offer a free bag of Buc-ees nuggets with any gas purchase and some jerky if the purchase is above a certain amount. I guess at that point, the legislature would go after then for offering addictive stuff as gas premiums.
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:57 am to TejasHorn
As long as Buc-ee's isn't selling below cost which I do think is illegal, then I fail to see the issue.
ETA: Buc-ee's cost is always going to be lower than everyone else's because they are so big they own their own fuel fleet.
ETA: Buc-ee's cost is always going to be lower than everyone else's because they are so big they own their own fuel fleet.
This post was edited on 2/5/19 at 10:58 am
Posted on 2/5/19 at 10:59 am to keks tadpole
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The profit margins aren't in the gas, it's in the groceries.
Right.
So Buc-ee's undercuts prices on gas and might even take a hit on the gas, but the net is positive because of all the extra foot traffic buying groceries and stuff.
This is free market. I don't get why this could be illegal in any way.
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