If you'll look to the right of the Blog you'll see Sam's Club selling gas for $2.35 a gallon right now. However, this Exxon by WorWic is clearly much higher. Please, don't come back on here and tell me gas stations make pennies on the gallon. Many of them are screwing people who are already having a difficult enough time in this economy. I strongly urge our readers to NOT purchase their gas from this location.
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this is not price gouging. the definition of price gouging is the artificial pricing increase when there is no competition.
your statement about sams club selling cheaper is proof that this is not price gouging.
Price Gouging or not
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10:57
Oil companies maybe. but not gas stations. they make very little on gas.
they make money on the market (ie. the subway, snacks, drinks, etc.)
anonymous 11:01, $ .18 per gallon is not making a lot of additional money? That's $ .18 higher than Sam's Club and you better believe Sam's isn't selling gas at cost.
You are so full of crap it isn't funny. Oh, by the way. Why do you think they have so many lanes and pumps at this Exxon, for show????? NO! Because they sell a ton of gas and have to have enough lanes to service their Customers. By the way Folks, I believe this is one of the Stations that is scheduled to double in size too. Ask around, the people in the know are aware of this expansion.
joe, you know that Sams buys their gas differently than gordy does. they buy overages and bulk. this is an apples to oranges comparison.
it comes down to the margin. have you asked gordy the margin that he is making?
and when is it bad to make a profit? if gordy can charge more, even when there is competition, then what is wrong with that.
he has a nice station, a subway, a great beer cooler, etc. this comes at a cost.
and if you dont like the price dont shop there. I just dont understand why you have to go after gordy and his employees. this is obviously a personal issue that you have with the man himself. not the station. you just cant separate them
I never said anything about Gordy. However, if this is yet another Gordy Tiger Mart, well, makes even more sense to me now. Thanks for the heads up!
Also, Folks, don't buy this person's BS either. I see the exact same trucks pulling out of Memory Garden Land delivering the same exact gas to Sam's as they do a Gordy gas station. So you are full of crap, whoever you are.
joe, again, you dont know how it is paid for and how it is priced. you need to do some investigating before even going down this road.
everyone pays different. if you want to see another industry that does the same, next time you take a flight on an airplane, ask everyone on the plane what they paid for their ticket. I bet everyone of them will have paid a different price, even though they could have bought from the same place.
this is all about buying power, supply & and demand, etc.
This was the price in south Salisbury and Fruitland yesterday. If you want to see "price gouging" come to Princess Anne stations! I will ride to Salisbury with my gas light on to bypass them.
This is all about speculators abusing the people for profits.
Practically every station in OC is selling gas at this price this morning. It's even higher in Cambridge.
The reason behind the rapid rise in oil prices is the rapid decline in the value of the dollar from all the deficit spending taking place in Washington.
Has anyone seen the current members of Congress do anything about drilling our own petroleum resources?
anonymous 11:59, While I appreciate your comment and opinion, I have to disagree. Just look at the gas price at Sam's Club today back on the main page, to the right. They are almost 20 cents less per gallon and I saw much lower gas prices right in Town in Ocean City. This station caught my attention because it was so much higher. I actually thought the prices in OC were reasonable.
First of all this is not a Gordys Tiger Mart.
Second this station lowers their prices on Friday afternoon and then raises the price late in the day on Sunday. Lower prices on the weekend = more tourists at the pumps. Who cares about the locals during the week.
And I would not eat at that subway if I were you.
I live by one of the Gordy Tiger Marts (Delmar, by K mart and Rt 50 at nanticoke road. I am all over town and Gordy is always higher. I don't care about the subway or the baskin robbins or the beer cave. I want lower gas and I will go whereever it is lower...and right now that is not Exxon,or WaWa. Try Rt 13 it is in the 2 30's .
I heard opec was going to stop production until oil went above $100 dollars a barrel. The government wants to stick their nose into everything yet they allow companies like exxon to make HUGE profits. Consumption of gas has gone down yet the prices still keep going up.
Bottom line: like it or not, these are retail businesses.
They have the right to charge what they want, as long as they are not in collusion with other retailers in a price-fixing scheme.
In the marketplace, it's "caveat emptor"-- let the buyer beware.
Just like everything else, you need to shop around for the best price.
One station in Princess Anne regularly runs their prices up for the summer driving season, especially around the holiday weekends, because they're on 13 and they have a captive audience.
Is it legal? Sure.
But it isn't morally right to take advantage of people like that. And I don't buy gas there very often anymore for that reason.
Joe-
Why is a rich guy like you worried about a penny or even ten pennies per gallon. I bet you would save more by shopping around and only buying soda when it is on sale.
anonymous 3:42, First of all I rarely drink soda, unless with my Hot Dog at Sam's Club for $1.81 including tax.
Secondly, I have 14 vehicles, unlike your one. One in which holds 100 gallons in the tank.
I travel quite a bit day in and day out and in my lifetime I'm not going to feed other countries of businesses that support those countries for their oil and gas.
I trust Sam's Club over ANY other local business, feeling confident what their METERS say is going into my tank is accurate. I do NOT trust other small business owners in being accurate.
There you have it.
Living in Florida - I hear the term "price gouging" many times throughout the year. However, it is my understanding that one can only be charged with price gouging in a state of emergency or crisis.
I never have understood how oil companies have gotten away with said price gouging or profiteering, whatever you want to call it...but the small town gas station cannot.
Sam's Club sells "unbranded" gasoline. It is significantly cheaper than Branded (ie. Exxon, Texaco, BP, Citgo, etc). However, each individual brand cost different on any given day. Once a station brands itself, it cannot unbrand easily. Therefore, this station MUST sell Exxon gasoline even though the cost of it is much higher right now than "unbranded" gasoline. There are other time periods in which this station is matched with Wawa or Sam's Club. The fact is this: you never know about the quality of gasoline at a Sam's Club. Sam's Club is not required to provide the full range of credit card payment options found in an Exxon station. Sam's Club is also not required to provide a clean restroom for patrons, while Exxon does require its dealers to provide a clean rest room. There are a lot of issues involved with choosing where to buy your gasoline. Branded stations provide services which are not typically found in unbranded stations. Branded stations sell a very consistent, high quality gasoline with the detergents formulated to provide certain added value to its customers.
I hope this is helpful information.
anonymous 8:40,
Let me just say this. I have been buying Sam's Club Gas for more years than I'd like to mention.
I have purchased it, even in our Motor Coach, from pretty much every State from Maryland all the way to Orlando Florida. I have never once had a single problem and I mean NOT ONE the entire time I have purchased gasoline from them.
Now, I can tell you that Gordy had paid out many thousands of dollars in auto repairs, (even recently in Delaware) for engine replacements and so forth because of their bad fuel and conditions.
Please do show me of ONE local who has had problems with Sam's Club gasoline. Remember now, I have 14 cars, a Motor Coach and two Harleys as well as 4 wheelers, a Jet Boat, a Wave Runner, all using Sam's Club Gas.
Some of you people are so full of crap it isn't funny. NOT ONCE did I ever have a problem and I have vehicles worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and I'd take my chances any day at Sam's Club versus any Exxon any day of the week.
Now let's see your come back on those statements. I will NEVER take a risk at a Gordy Tiger Mart. Try reading the news and see the conditions they provide. Their gasoline sucks and it has been proven.
All I know is gas jumped from $2.37/gallon to $2.53 overnight and not one of you is saying anything about it. Am I the only one concerned with the rising prices we are seeing again?
The clowns in the futures market are doing the same thing they did to us last year and no one seems concerned about it...I think what they are doing is disgusting and should be against the law!
I carry no more than half a tank as I REFUSE to carry their inventory around in my car and just like last year it looks like I'll be staying home a lot more; I like my money in my pocket and not in theirs!
anonymous 10:24, You seem to have missed it. Here's what Sam's Club is promoting TODAY.
Price Station Address City Time
$2.35 Sam's Club
2700 N Salisbury Blvd & Northpointe Dr
Salisbury
As for the Exxon Gas Stations, you're right.
Royal farms are just as bad. The new one out on Rt. 50 is also 2.53 when just the other day they were 2.45 while Sam's Club was still at 2.35.
If the president can call for the CEO of a major car company to step down why can't he call for a stop on the fast rising gas prices? Let's put a cap on it!
We all have plenty of reasons to avoid Gordy's Stores, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the gasoline! He has helped waste (stolen?) millions of our dollars building a fire department which we did not need. It is believed he profited (secretly) from the sale of the property to build the fire department. He has used his influence to have his worthless kid promoted in the fire department ahead of other, qualified and dedicated firemen. He has sold out the volunteers. He has driven around in a city paid automobile after damaging a previous automobile because he failed to do proper preventive maintenance. He is a very undesirable person to do business in this town. Many of us in the fire department wait for the day he leaves.
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