“I’ll be needing to jack up my own levels of situational awareness,”
Excellent advice for all. I sometimes buy gas a Sam’s Clubs. Almost everyone that I have been to can best be described as chaos. Impatient customers that can’t wait one additional minute for the line to move up and squeeze through and back into the 1st pump when it’s open or the ones that try to stretch the hose over the vehicle to fill a left side tank from a right side pump. Saw a couple of shouting matches and reckless driving afterward.
My policy is to only use Sam’s if there are no lines. Saving a nickel a gallon just isn’t always worth it.
In some ways NJ might be right, at one time I don’t think they allowed self-service, not sure if that is still the case.
Same here.
If there’s a line, I’ll come back 10 minutes before closing time.
And I pick the front pump in the center lane which would, I reckon, make it kind of hard to go hitting the pump I’m using.
New Jersey still doesn’t allow self-service. A great boon to this handicapped old fart. Oddly enough, last time I was there, NJ gas was still cheaper than New York or Pennyswillvania.
I question why the overhead fire-extinguishing system wasn’t triggered. Most places I buy gas have the piping and nozzles in the canopy. Perhaps the state where this happened doesn’t require it?
In some ways NJ might be right, at one time I don’t think they allowed self-service, not sure if that is still the case.
1941 law still in place. 100% full service.
Walmart, Sams etc. You are at the mercy of the mob.
Observe this:
1. People parking outside of the lines.
2. Healthy looking people parking in handicapped spots.
3. Healthy looking people using the motorized carts
4. Nobody lets you in when parking
5. Garbage in the parking lot.
6. Dirty restrooms
I live in the South. I love Publix
We use Sam’s also...and it is a zoo. I think we save apprx 20¢ a gallon on a 32 gallon tank.. You are right about the lines. I drive on by if there are lines at the multiple pumps. We’re also right on the SC line, so we can go down there and get about the same savings.