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You Can Lower Your Gas Cost To 89 Cents For A Gallon Of Gas! |
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You Can Lower Your Gas Cost to 89 Cents For A Gallon Of Gas!
by Scott Siegel
You can learn how consumers have cut the price of gas to unheard of levels. 89 cents was what one consumer paid, while $1.09 was what another paid. They applied to their gas purchases the same ideas they used when they purchased other items. This is how.
Not long ago, Kellie Courtney of Cleveland paid only 89 cents per gallon of gas. Marion Charvat paid $1.09 a gallon. Marion filled her Volkswagen Jetta for only $12.45. How could they buy gas so cheap? They did it because they are smart consumers. Here's how they did it.
The reason that those consumers, Marion and Kellie, could purchase gas at those prices is because they bought gas like they would buy any other item. They found a frequent buyer program that enabled them to lower their gas price. They shopped around and they found a way to buy gas at a place that had the absolute lowest price. They found it at Giant Eagle markets,a chain of supermarkets.
Giant Eagle does business in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. Recently Giant Eagle added a new component to their frequent shopper program. It is called Fuelperks. It is a program that offers discounts on gas at Giant Eagle's own stations for shopping at Giant Eagle using their frequent shopper card.
Shoppers get a 10 cent price reduction per gallon for one tank fill up for every $50.00 of purchases in Giant Eagle stores. If one purchases $100.00 of items a 20 cent reduction is earned. $500.00 of purchases gets $1.00 off a gallon. If a consumer spends enough in the stores it is possible to get gasoline for free.
The prices in Giant Eagle stores are the same as other groceries in the area so they are not making up the discounts by gouging on grocery prices. Likewise the Get-Go price on fuel is in line with competitors. That means that this program produces real world savings, not artificial savings. A big family that buys a lot of food every week will earn big discounts very quickly.
You don't have to shop at Giant Eagle to lower your gas price. It can be done anywhere. You just need to be a smart consumer. You need to do your homework.
Treat gas like anything else that you buy. Look for the best deals. Look for frequent shopper programs in your neighborhood that allow you to build up discounts you can use towards gas. Look for gas discounts and incentives anywhere you see a gas pump. Look for stores that may be branching out into the frequent shopper area or stores that now sell gas that didn't before.
In order to remain competitive a lot of stores that had not done so in the past have started selling fuel. This new competition has forced many convenience stores that sell fuel to start offering frequent buyer programs of their own. Those programs can help drop your gas costs. In addition, numbers of stores that never sold fuel before are now offering gasoline. As in the case of Giant Eagle they understand that lower gas costs is a way to increase traffic in their stores. As a result you have more ways to lower your gas costs.
In the past year, 60% of newly built grocery stores included fuel pumps. That is up from 18% the year before. This is from studies done by the Food Marketing Institute. The more outlets there are the more discount programs that will be available.
The mega retailers are another place you should look for bargains. As in many areas Wal-Mart / Sam's Club are jumping into the gas business big time. The VP in charge of fuel for Wal-Mart says he is looking to extend Sam Walton's marketing strategy to gasoline by building gas stations at every Sam's Club throughout the country. In his view, putting in pumps should be "standard practice. It just fits our business model: we want to bring everything [to consumers] at the lowest price."
Treat gas like anything else you buy. Comparison shop all the time. Be on the look out for deals, and low prices. Find the stores that have the best program for you. Look for low gas prices at non traditional places like grocery stores or big box retailers. If you do your homework you might be able to buy that tank of gas for 89 cents.
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