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Labor cost for gas goes to zero,

Labor cost has been zero since the late 70's.



lots of people still go in to grab
something while the tank fills.


But there's less of them because of the pay at the pump.

I guess he means for the guy behind the counter to swipe your card and tear
apart the receipts . The last time I had my gas pumped for me was in the
late 70's in Idaho at a farmers Co-Op. Around here (central Texas) it is
highly frowned upon to be filling your tank while you are in the store
buying snacks, as he suggests.

Allen

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Labor cost for gas goes to zero,

Labor cost has been zero since the late 70's.

Not if someone has to take the credit card/money; you only get to zero
labor with pay at the pump.

lots of people still go in to grab
something while the tank fills.


But there's less of them because of the pay at the pump.

Probably. Everything in life is a tradeoff.

--
Jim Pennino

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G.R. Patterson III wrote:


Newps wrote:

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Labor cost for gas goes to zero,

Labor cost has been zero since the late 70's.


They still have to pay the checkout people, and if you have to pay inside, they
have to have more cashiers and registers.

He was talking about people pumping gas. Except for a couple of moronic
states that don't allow self serv fuel I see the same number of workers
inside as I always have.

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G.R. Patterson III wrote:


Newps wrote:

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Labor cost for gas goes to zero,

Labor cost has been zero since the late 70's.


They still have to pay the checkout people, and if you have to pay inside, they
have to have more cashiers and registers.

He was talking about people pumping gas. Except for a couple of moronic
states that don't allow self serv fuel I see the same number of workers
inside as I always have.

No, I was talking about the extra cashier(s) you have to have if the
station doesn't have pay at the pump.

Around here the traditional 3-6 pump stations are fading away and being
replaced with mini-marts that have 6-15 automated pumps. When the pay at
the pump stuff fails, they become chaotic because they don't have enough
staff.

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Jim Pennino

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Newps wrote:

He was talking about people pumping gas.

I certainly didn't take it that way.

Except for a couple of moronic
states that don't allow self serv fuel I see the same number of workers
inside as I always have.

I live in one of those States, but I'm originally from Tennessee and return for
visits. When I travel south, I tend to stop at the same places for gas every
trip. In those stations, over half of the registers have been replaced with
counter displays since the pay-at-the-pump schemes came in.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

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Newps wrote:

He was talking about people pumping gas.

I certainly didn't take it that way.

Except for a couple of moronic
states that don't allow self serv fuel I see the same number of workers
inside as I always have.

I live in one of those States, but I'm originally from Tennessee and
return for
visits. When I travel south, I tend to stop at the same places for gas
every
trip. In those stations, over half of the registers have been replaced
with
counter displays since the pay-at-the-pump schemes came in.


Which just goes to prove that not as many people go inside to buy snacks. I
always thought the pay-at-the-pump stores were shooting themselves in the
foot!

Allen

Allen wrote:

Which just goes to prove that not as many people go inside to buy snacks.

No, it just shows that not as many people go inside. They may be selling just as
many snacks as ever, as far as I know.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

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Allen wrote:

Which just goes to prove that not as many people go inside to buy
snacks.

No, it just shows that not as many people go inside. They may be selling
just as
many snacks as ever, as far as I know.


I guess that may answer the obese American syndrome, the same amount of
snacks being eaten by fewer customers .

Allen

Allen wrote:

I guess that may answer the obese American syndrome, the same amount of
snacks being eaten by fewer customers .

You still don't get it. There could be just as many snacks customers as there
were before the on-pump readers were installed. Many of the people who used to
buy gas and pay for it inside aren't going inside anymore.

Personally, I would agree that they *probably* don't sell as much. I don't
happen to be an "impulse buyer" myself, so they aren't selling fewer snacks
because *I* shop outside, but I've read that many Americans are. I just disagree
that the decrease in registers is proof that this is the case.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

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No, I was talking about the extra cashier(s) you have to have if the
station doesn't have pay at the pump.

Around here the traditional 3-6 pump stations are fading away and being
replaced with mini-marts that have 6-15 automated pumps. When the pay at
the pump stuff fails, they become chaotic because they don't have enough
staff.

I live in a relatively small town(100,000). All the gas stations here
simply added the pay at the pump onto the existing pumps. They didn't
add pumps or change the rest of the gas station in any way. Nobody is
building the big mini marts that are common in big cities. There's
still the same number of cash registers at each station, usually two.