the obvious answer is that they are dying the fuel to bring the colour up to the norm as they must put together a weaker brew for their servos

The mechanics have noticed a marked increase in fuel problems in m’cycles with this supplier.

Has anyone else heard of similar stories?

in QLD, supermarkets cant hold a liquor licence. so the smart likes of woolies and coles have bought the names of all the major liquor stores and continue to trade under the different banner. now after their plan has been in seed for 4 or so yrs (and for 2 of them the deals were great) they are charging like anything for their stock.

and why?
because they wiped out the competition by either purchasing them or stealing the sales during the 2 yrs where their prices were decent

IGA also offers a fuel discount scheme, but unlike the others you can save the dosh by shopping at ANY servo not their specified one

Aldi’s food is all home brand stuff. go and price home brand for home brand prices between woolies and Aldi and you might be surprised.
Aldi dont sell Coke, they sell some swaheile brand.
you cant say woolies is a rip job because aldi sells united cola (or whatever) for 50c a bottle cheaper.

the mrs did a shop there once (due to influence from inlaws) and came home with icecream that tasted like plastic (ill take blueribbon for $1 more and actually enjoy it thanks)
and sausages with out flavour.

I agree would be good if ALDI got into Fuel to mix it up a bit as they have done with groceries. Save a small fortune at Aldis and more of their range is Australian sourced than the other two.

Wish Aldi sold Grog in NSW to shake Woolworths monopoly in that sector.

Some country towns I hear are starting to boycott Woolworths and good on them as Woolworths /Coles aren’t happy until they put the little guys out of business.
They also set the inflated prices and huge mark ups on produce while giving a pittance to the farmers.

“it’s impossible to SHAME the SHAMELESS!!!!”

All they’ve ever done up till now is talk the price up.

But petrol/diesel is not the only thing we consumers are being ripped on – how about the other inelastic products like Gas, Electricity, Water, Local Govt taxes, State gov’t taxes like registration.

No wonder inflation is soaring!

dont buy your fuel from

either safeway or coles

Refined Fuel is probably the most inelastic product on the face of the earth (next to tobacco)….meaning that when the price increases, demand doesn’t drop off at all (as an example, at the opposite end of the scale, an elastic product will have demand drop off greatly if the price increases slightly).

Any companies dealing in such a product shouldn’t really be allowed to exploit consumers, because they are at a massive advantage over any other industry dealing in any other product.

The ACCC places far greater regulation on products which consumers are less dependent on. Why should fuel be overlooked?

Most of the money they make on tuesdays would actually be from in store sales from people who are happy to pay the exuberant prices on convenience items instead of getting them from a supermarket.

All that being said, of course petrol companies could run at slightly lower profits, which probably only equal a few cents a litre at the bowser though.

From what I read posted elsewhere on the weekly cycle
“The price you pay at the petrol pump is based on 2 things: 1. the wholesale price, and 2. the rebate that the reatiler negotiated with the oil company. The retailer generally makes approx. 4 cents per litre and aims to maximise volume sold every day of the week. Keep in mind that 60 % of their gross margin is from shop sales (cigarettes, soft drink, choclates, bread & milk) so petrol sales are there to get customers into the store. The cycle starts on Wednesday (highest price) and as it heads towards Friday (highest volume day) the retailer drops the price to compete with other outlets and gain max volume. When it gets to the stage that they are not making any margin on fuel they request further rebates from the oil company to support their sales volume. The oil companies need volume to keep the refineries going efficiently. The oil compaines also have knowledge of selling prices from all outlets via EFTOS data purchased from Informed Sources (costs approx $1M pa – they all do it). They trade off margin for volume as we go through the high volume days Friday – Monday and when it gets to the point of no financial bebefit to provide rebates, they cut the rebates and it goes back to the normal price on, or around Tuesday. The retailer makes around 4 cpl through the week, Govt makes 38.4 cpl + GST.”

What does the ACCC expect? Coles to raise prices at the same time as everyone else? It wont make any difference to prices for most people.
The weekly price cycle works for me, i get petrol at a cheap point in the week (with a shop docket for coles/woolies) and I dont spend 10 minutes queuing up for fuel like I see many at the more popular servos.

What do people suggest? get rid of the weekly cycle? then the prices would be averaged for the whole week, if you think petrol stations are going to sell petrol all week round for the tuesday night price youre delusional.