Limerick petrol station owners object to tesco petrol

munstergirl

From todays limerick leader,
Now we all know how limerick prices are for petrol, so i say WELCOME TESCO. (coonagh)
Hope limerick city council give them permission.

Shammy

hopefully , the prices are getting rediculous.

JerryHandbag

No sympathy for them, the prices at the minute are offensive.

Berty

Tesco = Statoil Fuel

Tesco = Cheaper than indentical Statoil Fuel

Stab*City

Once again the greedy are running scared.. WELCOME TESCO PETROL

goingpostal

Tesco better get permission. Its about time someone broke up the price cartel. We are getting our pants pulled down at the moment.

Raiser

Please let this be the end of Limericks dishonest Fuel Cartel.

- I'd happily drive across town and queue in Tesco to buy fuel at competitive, market-controlled prices rather than be left with no choice other than to support our local price fixing W@nkers.

Is there any Office in particular who can be lobbied/petitioned?

Berty

Raiser wrote: »

Is there any Office in particular who can be lobbied/petitioned?

Planning would have to be voted by the county councillors so find out who they are and lobby them to ensure they pass the planning.

Im sure the Limerick Post / Leader will pick up on this but if not why not let the editor know from their websites.

Mc Love

tesco petrol - YES PLEASE

langdang

The council in Cork refused permission for Tesco to build a petrol station, as adding a 7th station to the area would affect the business of the other 6?? (Thanks to Lobbying from SIMI according to this link : http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article547304.ece )

What are the chances of Limerick council acting to prevent competition???

Berty

That story was in 2005.

The world is truly a different place now where competition and "VALUE" is far more important than it ever was.

phog

Berty wrote: »

That story was in 2005.

The world is truly a different place now where competition and "VALUE" is far more important than it ever was.

That's the problem, in Ireland during the "Celtic Tiger" people that had the chance to ride the customer did so in the knowledge that they would make their money anyhow, now people think we should get value, we should have got and sought value. I've always shopped around in particualr for fuel, it's so easy as the prices are advertised outside every petrol station.

BTW - 131.9 in Corbally this evening.

JerryHandbag

136.9 at a filling station not far from me near Croom.....****ing depressing

thesimpsons

Berty wrote: »

Planning would have to be voted by the county councillors so find out who they are and lobby them to ensure they pass the planning.

Im sure the Limerick Post / Leader will pick up on this but if not why not let the editor know from their websites.

Coonagh is in the City Council area - city council desparate for money so I can see it being passed. However, can see traffic problems with cars queueing up there as the entry is same one for entry to the shopping centre and Ferndale housing.

munstergirl

There is 2 exits from coonagh, + tesco is open 24 hours so hopefully traffic excuse won't work.
Plus there is no other petrol station on that side of ennis road.

osarusan

How much cheaper might it be?

gaf1983

Well there is another petrol station on that side of the road - the one beside Xtra-Vision.

The excuse the petrol station owners gave in the Leader article about why they oppose the opening is pathetic: we don't want to have to let their staff go. :rolleyes: My arse, they should just come clean and say they don't want their cartel being disrupted.

phog

osarusan wrote: »

How much cheaper might it be?

It's not - if this is anything to go by.:mad:

phill106

phog wrote: »

It's not - if this is anything to go by.:mad:

If you do a search for dundrum on same map, shows one other topaz, where petrol is the same, diesel is a cent cheaper.
Dont tesco also give few cent off per litre once you buy a certain amount in supermarket?
or do you get clubcard points too.....

Raiser

phog wrote: »

It's not - if this is anything to go by.:mad:

Heard on Newstalk this morning that Tesco Ballinasloe is 126.9

langdang

Berty wrote: »

That story was in 2005.

The world is truly a different place now where competition and "VALUE" is far more important than it ever was.

Same gimps in charge tho, all the way to the top...

Kess73

gaf1983 wrote: »

Well there is another petrol station on that side of the road - the one beside Xtra-Vision.

The excuse the petrol station owners gave in the Leader article about why they oppose the opening is pathetic: we don't want to have to let their staff go. :rolleyes: My arse, they should just come clean and say they don't want their cartel being disrupted.

Ahh but a cartel is illegal, so they can hardly come out with the truth as to why they don't want to be forced into being slightly more competitive.

The same tired excuses were trotted out by a certain cinema in Limerick when they objected to the proposed cinema in the Coonagh shopping centre. They had things like "would have to let staff go" and "not fair" in their complaint.

Mind you Tesco are no angels on that front either. It was them who had the building of a Lidl store on the site of the old Texaco station on the dual carriageway blocked. Lidl eventually going in across from the Jetland.

Competition seems a dirty word in Ireland.

TestTransmission

osarusan wrote: »

How much cheaper might it be?

phog wrote: »

It's not - if this is anything to go by.:mad:

phill106 wrote: »

If you do a search for dundrum on same map, shows one other topaz, where petrol is the same, diesel is a cent cheaper.
Dont tesco also give few cent off per litre once you buy a certain amount in supermarket?
or do you get clubcard points too.....

When tesco built a new supermarket in Tullamore,there was also a Tesco petrol station opened,was about 4/5 cent cheaper went it first opened.Now,its the same.

Berty

TestTransmission wrote: »

When tesco built a new supermarket in Tullamore,there was also a Tesco petrol station opened,was about 4/5 cent cheaper went it first opened.Now,its the same.

You need to factor in the savings you can make with your Tesco Card which will end up saving you money in the long run and every so often you will get a few cent off your fuel if you buy certain products.

TestTransmission

Berty wrote: »

You need to factor in the savings you can make with your Tesco Card which will end up saving you money in the long run and every so often you will get a few cent off your fuel if you buy certain products.

They had an offer for 5 cent off every litre when you shopped over 50 euro but that stopped aswell.Suppose,if its nearby and you have a tesco clubcard its good.

My mate who runs a taxi company gets them all to fill up there,they all use his clubcard...gets some amount of vouchers every few months

Casperbhoy

hopefully this happens

thesimpsons

munstergirl wrote: »

There is 2 exits from coonagh, + tesco is open 24 hours so hopefully traffic excuse won't work.
Plus there is no other petrol station on that side of ennis road.

Theres only the one exit from Coonagh shopping centre - everything filters through Coonagh roundabout. Getting in and out of Ferndale if you live there must be very frustrating - I visit it couple of time a week and feel residents were very badly shafted. To go from the houses to the shops you have to come out of estate, drive the full way round the roundabout and back into Tesco again. The plans for the petrol station are out at the front of the centre near the roundabout. With the tunnel opening the petrol station should do very well. Is Shiels garage still open for petrol????

Kess73

thesimpsons wrote: »

Theres only the one exit from Coonagh shopping centre - everything filters through Coonagh roundabout. Getting in and out of Ferndale if you live there must be very frustrating - I visit it couple of time a week and feel residents were very badly shafted. To go from the houses to the shops you have to come out of estate, drive the full way round the roundabout and back into Tesco again. The plans for the petrol station are out at the front of the centre near the roundabout. With the tunnel opening the petrol station should do very well. Is Shiels garage still open for petrol????

You can go out the back way also and get onto the dual carriageway that way.

Berty

Also the petrol station in Sheils is technically Co Clare so the council wont really car about their objections.

Everyone for themselves.

RonMexico

I trust the council to make the correct wrong decision.

phog

Raiser wrote: »

Heard on Newstalk this morning that Tesco Ballinasloe is 126.9

I was there last week and a few stations are 126, is this because of Tesco or did Tesco follow the other stations down to that price?