walleyejack

wait a minute, they have to think of their retirement pension, can t retire with no income. keep driving and keep the economy moving.

PaulUptime

Yes, saw that. Very grateful the closest station to me happens to be that Queensway Costco, and I'm an early riser. By 7:30 Thursday morning, was able to get three of our vehicles up and through, plus a 20l jug for the snowblower, and once had just one person ahead of me.

Brian71

Yeah, I'm 5 minutes from there. It's always empty before 8 am. Sometimes after 6-7 it's hit and miss.

Brian71

I was at Costco on The Queensway today to pick up shop towels. I guess the price of gas is increasing for the long weekend.
They re-configured the line to the pumps today. All cars had to snake through the parking lot. There must have been around 30 cars in line before entering the pump area.
I'm guessing the wait would be around an hour.
What will they save $5?
I think there must be better ways to kill an afternoon.

PaulUptime

I figured it would be nutz there today.

On principal can't refuse $1.04 on regular and doubt we'll see that again. GF's car was empty and so were the 5 20l jugs I also filled, so now my spring stockpile is in place. Popped over there just before 7 this morning and had just one car ahead of me. Figure I saved about $25 vs today's hike, and was back by 7:15.

Pays to be an early riser / afternoon napper!

Patman

You can save a lot more than that. The other day I calculated the difference on a full tank in my Corvette at Shell vs a full tank at Costco was a savings of almost $18 at Costco! And it's never taken me an hour to get fuel there no matter how long the line is, it moves faster than you think and the typical wait time is 10-15 minutes at the busiest time. Out of principal alone I hate giving more money to the gas companies than necessary, so anytime I'm near a Costco gas station I get fuel.

mracer

Always fill my Vette up with Costco fuel! Never had an issue.
mike

walleyejack

ditto

RAGGDOLL

I'm burning up CT 91 in my pig of a V and loving' every minute of it

Brian71

They re-configured the line yesterday forcing cars to drive around the perimeter of the parking lot. The line also went through an aisle of parking spots causing further gridlock.
So once you snaked through that line you wound up at he pump area with the 6-8 separate lines. Yesterday you'd have waited an hour.
Normally you're there 15-20 minutes.
Today the pumps were empty.

cpetruzzi

I agree with you. I hate to wait on long lines. Our Costco is about 15 cents per gallon cheaper than other brands so even if I'm really low and I get 15 gallons that's $2.25 extra to pass up the long line.

walleyejack

here, it is .10 litre difference, which is approx .40 gallon, which equates to about .54 US per gallon.

cpetruzzi

Wow. That's a big difference. I might wait a bit longer for that much savings.

RAGGDOLL

He really did the math on that eh?