The managers or assistant managers keep an eye on each others prices. If brand A goes down two cents, brand B will lower their price by the same. It’s all based on the current trading price of crude oil.
Now what gets me is that when gas went to 4 bucks a gallon under obama, oil products went sky high too but when gas prices came down, did oil product prices? Nope.
Never understood why motor oil is 4 times the price of gasoline either. From what little I understand about oil based products, the more refining, the higher the price BUT motor oil takes way less refining than gas. Oil has way lower liability than gas due to flammability too so oil should be like a buck a gallon. Guess we’re paying through the nose for that plastic bottle.
I can see that if they are in visual range.
The Shell on 44th St and the Mobil on 76th going up simultaneously stretches credulity.
Adding all the other Grand Rapids area gas stations other than Sam’Club and Costco breaks my credulity and tramples it into the ground.