What the ...
So our pump prices have been pretty volatile around Vancouver. One morning it's 79.5c / litre, by noon it's 98.5 !!! It's up and down all over.
But now someone added another wrinkle and I have no idea when it started. I've been riding my bike to and from work for a couple of months now (40 minutes each way ... phew!) but my wife pointed this out to me.
So, now you have the price on the usual big board (say 89.9) but they also have a sandwhich board type sign by the entrance that will say something like "Save 3.5 cents per litre", meaning whatever the advertised price on the sign is, the pump price is 3.5 cents per litre less.
This is INSANE!! Who thought of this? Now when you're driving down the street in search of gas you have to look at the big sign, slow down for the small sign, and then do maths before you can figure out who has the better price.
Oh, wait. That's probably what it is for. To cut down on the shopping around, to make it harder to figure out so that people get tired sooner and stop looking!
Does anyone else suffer from this crazy system?
