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Esso changed to Topaz @Singland
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28-12-2011 4:58pm#1
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The Dock road is an example of two stations of which one is a company site and the other is a franchisee site.
It is true but even the company run sites have to "ring in" their competitor pricing to head office and around 20 minutes later they get a phone call telling them what pricing to change to.
We used to open at 7am on the Dock road and do a drive by of the other sites and write down the pricing EVERY morning, ring it in and wait for our new pricing.
The old monoliths used to be manual to change so a little time consuming and horrible in crappy weather. You'd have to get a long stick, normally brush and pull down the pricing boards to change it with snap on numbers. Now it can be done from the comfort of the office.
Cue people getting fuel during the changeover. "I'm not paying that price, it wasn't like that when I drove onto the forecourt" because the pumps can't be changed till the monolith is. 0 -
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Beer Baron wrote: »It is true but even the company run sites have to "ring in" their competitor pricing to head office and around 20 minutes later they get a phone call telling them what pricing to change to.
We used to open at 7am on the Dock road and do a drive by of the other sites and write down the pricing EVERY morning, ring it in and wait for our new pricing.
The old monoliths used to be manual to change so a little time consuming and horrible in crappy weather. You'd have to get a long stick, normally brush and pull down the pricing boards to change it with snap on numbers. Now it can be done from the comfort of the office.
Cue people getting fuel during the changeover. "I'm not paying that price, it wasn't like that when I drove onto the forecourt" because the pumps can't be changed till the monolith is.
Interesting. The opening time you gave narrows it down to one site on the dock road, and even narrows it down to that station between 1992 and 1996 if I recall correctly the year it switched to being a 24 hour station.0 -
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Beer Baron wrote: »Nope
Well Londis/Top was 24 hour until it closed in the early 2000s.
The Jet station was 24 hour right up to circa 2005.
Statoil, or Shannonside service station to give it it's official title from when it opened
, used to open at 7am and close at midnight until 1996, maybe early 1997, when it went 24 hour, and is my guess for the station you used to go price checking for
Shell opened after Statoil went 24 hour.
Texaco is the one throwing some doubt into my mind as it was 24 hour at one stage, then switched to a two cycle shift (three if you want to include the swing shift that straddled the morning and evening shift) and dabbled with a late third shift again at some point if memory serves right.
There was a Statoil connection with three of those sites (not including the Topaz merger) which involved Head Office personnel moving between companies.
There is a slight chance that if you were working in one of the sites on the Dock road in the early 90's and were one of the original crew members that I met you when there for an opening, and at the very least I was one of the folk who got to see the daily/weekly figures as they were sent to Dublin along with things like the fuel price checks etc.
Out of curiousity would the initials FG or LM mean anything to you in terms of them being head office initials? Neither are my initials, but I would have worked with them and they worked in the head offices of three and two of the stations on the dock road respectively. FG also went on to work in the Off Licence/distribution side of things for a while before returning to the fold so to speak.0 -
Early 00's I'm afraid.
Right up until the establishment of the Topaz Fuel Brand in Ireland.
Ah Londis Dock Road. The Young Folk will never know what was behind all that hoarding. Best Location in the City for an outbound fuel stop but never did work out.0 -
Beer Baron wrote: »Early 00's I'm afraid. Right up until the establishment of the Topaz Fuel Brand in Ireland.
Ah Londis Dock Road. The Young Folk will never know what was behind all that hoarding. Best Location in the City for an outbound fuel stop but never did work out.
So you used to do fuel price checks at 7am when the station opened and this was in the 2000's?
That's Statoil out of it then as it was a 24 station at that point and as such would not open at 7am as it was already open.:D Bloody goldmine at one point.
Londis was 24 hour as well (and often had a very entertaining chap working the night shift
) It did some great sales figures in the late 1990's but went to pot in the early 2000's figurewise.
If you were Shell then one of the initials I put up would have rang a bell for the late 90's and early 2000s. Although your Topaz comment does make me suspect this site a little.
Maybe you were in the Texaco then, in which case I did not meet you other than when I was a customer getting something.:)0 -
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