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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Running a filling station is a license to print money. Zip in, fill up, pay the minimum wage cashier.
There's not a lot of overhead here. KId sitting at a cashier window. Long past are the days of trusting your car to The Man With The Star™. "Service" is a farce.
And I don't think a lot of consumers bother with convenience items. Hell, you don't even have to walk in anymore. Whip out the card and pay at the pump. A little beep, and off you go -- no human interaction and more importantly no potato chip purchase.
If these places aren't in the business of selling fuel, they're doing a piss-poor job of selling anything else.
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How many gas stations do you see without convience store inventory for sale? Now compare that to the number of convience stores that don't sell gasoline. That should give you your answer. You miss the point in that only a very small portion of a gas stations total revenues are their margin. Their overhead is the price they pay for the gas in the first place. The price they get for gas is cancelled out by what they pay for it. What's left over as the profit is off of convience store sales.