But you can't add sugar syrup to your sugar syrup drink in the old school machines!
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But you can't add sugar syrup to your sugar syrup drink in the old school machines!
It wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out that those machines cause customers to refill less, thus increasing profit and driving their adoption.
Don't forget the waste because you have to purge out the previous persons drink before filling your own. Oh and the constant dripping on you while trying to get ice from behind the soda nozzle.
I actually went to grab a couple refills after waiting on some guy who didn't know how the machine worked to figure it out and before I could get to it a lady got there and started surfing the screens to find something she wanted.
I sat back down and said fuck it.
Our local Zaxby's used to have one of those machines.
It was a regular thing to see people lined up 4 or more deep waiting to get a drink.
I guess there were enough complaints that there is now a typical type machine with ice dispensers on each end and all the separate drinks in the middle.
Oh No! Now I don't have 12 different kinds of lemonade to ponder!
I'm not surprised - I've seen a few of them disappear myself. More "smartphone think" as far as I'm concerned - if it has a screen, it MUST be better..
KennethS
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That made me realize very time I fill up the sports car with premium I get a hose full of regular - at the premium price. Now I'm wondering how much residual fuel is in the hose when I start pumping. And how much profit the station is getting from this. Hmmm.
I know a guy that would always shut the pump off and then squeeze the handle and try to work the rest of the fuel out of the hose.
I do give it a good jiggle so it doesn't drip on the way out. Like taking a leak
Especially at the diesel pumps.
When thinking about this logically... (yeah I know.. consider the audience) they make nothing on it. Why don't they make money on it, because the next guy that buys regular gets the high octane stuff for the price of regular..
The local gast station at the Hwy 75/93 juncton here in Challis, recently opened up a brand new Chevron Convenience store/gas station andas usual the 3 grades of (up to 10%) ethanol laden gas are all comingout of the same nozzel, but.... This store has a dedicated non-ethanol premium wth it's own pump and hose! Which is a blessing for those people that buy non-ethanol for their small engine stuff in 5 gallon cans.
To answer your question about how much of the crappy stuff you're getting.... It's between 1/4 and 1/3 gallon on average depending on how long the fuel hose is...
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1/4-1/3 TANK? Do you mean 1/4-1/3 gallons? It's mixed at the base of the pump so it's just the hose volume from there.
Yep, that was a total brain fart when I typed that up...
I used to do that, but modern pumps pretty much stop you from doing it.
KennethS
TJ Expert
So this afternoon with premium at $5.099 a gallon, they ganked me out of $1.70. Bastards.
Does that make diesel at $7.39 a gallon a bargain, because you always get, well, just plain ol' diesel every time? BTW, that's a price I saw just south of town, and not what I paid. Paying $6.89 a gallon, which is bad enough.
