Tesco Finglas. Good show!

DMC

79.3 Unleaded.
69.9 Diesel.

Well done Tesco.

Since the end of the gulf war, the price of petrol in Dublin has hardly dropped, now all the garages on the N2 are cheaper than before Monday, since Tesco's arrival.

mike65

Exellent news - now all they have to do is have a
forecourt at every shop! The new Tesco in Waterford has a huge car park, loads of space- c'mon lads!

Mike.

unkel

Posted in the Bargains forum first. See here for details

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=128940

This is excellent news and just shows how much profit was being made. The cheapest unleaded petrol in Dublin I have fed my thirsty motor over the last month in the Dublin area was €0.83. Including the excise increase that would have been €0.88. Full tank savings in Tesco is 80 liters * (€0.88 - €0.79) = €7

For me (average mileage) this would amount to several hundred € a year. Nice one

Hope they are coming to a Tesco near me though

ondafly

do they do super unleaded ? feel like spoiling my baby !

great news all the same - tis nearly worth the trip to give them the business

DMC

Yes, they have super unleaded, cant remember the price though.

ToxicPaddy

Methinks me may have to pay a visit..

yeah that new tesco in Waterford could do with a nice forecourt in the carpark..

all that lovely space and no nice cheap petrol.. such a shame..

Jip

I thought the small print was that you only get it at this price if you spend €40 or more in Tesco itself, otherwise you'll be paying post-budget prices ?

Hellrazer

Tescos prices at the pumps for every punter off the street are 79.3 u/l and 69.9 diesel.


But the best thing about this offer is that for every €40 you spend in Tescos you get ANOTHER 5 cent off every litre of fuel you buy.

So if you spend €120 on your weekly shopping you could be paying as little as 64.3 cent per litre unleaded and 54.9 cent per litre for diesel.

Thats what the small print is---Its an extra 5 cent off every litre for every €40 you spend in Tescos supermarket.

Tis about time someone gave all these cartel garage owners a kick up the arse.All we need now is that UK pub group to open a few of their own pubs near town and we`ll be drinking pints for €1.50 or so.Just then it may feel like we`re not being ripped off as much as we are now.

Cheap petrol and cheap drink.Thats what the country needs.

Jip

Originally posted by Hellrazer
Thats what the small print is---Its an extra 5 cent off every litre for every €40 you spend in Tescos supermarket.

I see.

Cheap petrol and cheap drink.Thats what the country needs.

To be fair though, our petrol prices are amongst the cheapest in Europe at the moments, but keep the prices falling, they can never be cheap enough

DMC

We dont want to mix cheap petrol and cheep drink now!:D

pedro ferio-vti

Originally posted by ondafly
do they do super unleaded ? feel like spoiling my baby !

great news all the same - tis nearly worth the trip to give them the business

Yeh they do Super for 87c brian! Anywhere else it was 110 or so for a litre.........So get ur teg down there now, there's no excuse not to use it anymore!

Turner

Originally posted by Jip


To be fair though, our petrol prices are amongst the cheapest in Europe at the moments, but keep the prices falling, they can never be cheap enough

I just came back from Gran Canaria where i payed 46c for a litre of unleaded petrol.

ford fiesta

Statoil in Ballindine, Co. Mayo is still 82.9 per litre unleaded!!...All the others in the region are at least 89.9!

Big al

visit www.irishfuelprices.com its fairly update, and not a bad reference site

Neil3030

Originally posted by Chief---
I just came back from Gran Canaria where i payed 46c for a litre of unleaded petrol.

I'd say that was a good night

But this is indeed excellent news. Competition is second only to compund interest in it's perpetual abilities. Hopefully all supermarkets and large shopping centres will follow suit.

Seeing as the Texeco at the KCR was the chepest, to my knowledge, at around the 83.9 mark that's still a saving of 4% even if you don't do your shopping.

Neil3030

Originally posted by Chief---
I just came back from Gran Canaria where i payed 46c for a litre of unleaded petrol.

I'd say that was a good night

But this is indeed excellent news. Competition is second only to compund interest in it's perpetual abilities. Hopefully all supermarkets and large shopping centres will follow suit.

Seeing as the Texeco at the KCR was the chepest, to my knowledge, at around the 83.9 mark that's still a saving of 4% even if you don't do your shopping.

Victor

The thing with the Canaries is (a) low demand - nowhere is more than 50 miles away (b) low VAT and little excise (c) good (enough) public transport - who cares about waiting for the bus when it's 24 degrees in January?

Turner

Suppose so. It was nice to see many people including young people (18-30) driving around in BMW E30 m3's and 4 litre mercs.

Rarely over there will you see a bmw less than a 330i or 530i. I presume they dont pay the same tax rates as we do. So many lovely 1980's mercs over there in mint condition with huge engines.

Chief.

ondafly

just filled up the car there with Super Unleaded - 87.2c per litre

pedro ferio-vti

Good stuff brian, i'll be heading up this evening to do the same!

dcGT

Originally posted by Hellrazer

But the best thing about this offer is that for every €40 you spend in Tescos you get ANOTHER 5 cent off every litre of fuel you buy.

Was in Tescos the other day, and read the small print in a poster that this '5 cent a litre off' offer ends in May some time (can't remember date). Does anyone know anything about this? Also, are the cheap Tesco petrol prices slowing creeping up at a higher rate than the more expensive forecourts? Wasn't there 10 cent in the difference at one stage?

DC.

leonotron

I Think the expiry date is relative to when you get the voucher

dcGT

I know that there's a date printed in the receipt which is an expiry date, but the I'm referring to was in the shop. I saw it while I was queing. Also, I have a few receipts from family/friends etc. bought up as recent as last Saturday, yet they all have same expiry date: - 16/05/04 ???

Cheers,
DC.

ondafly

prices certainly are creeping upwards . 85.2cent last time i was in the statoil in finglas - still better than 93 cent, but slowly getting worse. I was told of somewhere near monaghan charging 99.2 cent per litre

DaithiSurfer

yer man in statoil in finglas is adding on 1 cent a week to get to a point where he can just about manage the amount of customers. At the moment he is swamped with qeues and will keep putting up the price til he has a steady stream of punters rather than qeues. That way he maximises his profit.
Or so goes the story from a member of the staff there anyway.
Makes sense to me.

dcGT

So that's the new scam now? Increase your prices so you have the optimum amount of customers without the bottle-neck of queues.....interesting
Don't you think that non-local people will soon stop going out of their way to petrol at these places? Will it not cost them more to get there and back than they are saving by going there in the first place? Especially now as the gap between 'cheap' and 'normal' petrol is about 5 cent/litre and closing

That reminds me, I saw 2 Roscommon reg vans up at Tesco Finglas last month. They had about 6 or 7 medium sized barrels in the back of the vans and were filling all of them up. They also had what looked like a domestic oil tank strapped to the roof of each van! I hope they both had their '5 cent/litre off' vouchers!

DaithiSurfer

Originally posted by dcGT
So that's the new scam now? Increase your prices so you have the optimum amount of customers without the bottle-neck of queues.....interesting
Don't you think that non-local people will soon stop going out of their way to petrol at these places? Will it not cost them more to get there and back than they are saving by going there in the first place? Especially now as the gap between 'cheap' and 'normal' petrol is about 5 cent/litre and closing

I said somthing similar myself. Seems that the day there is a lull the price will go back down by a few cents and then eventually he'll get a happy medium.

From my experience though, i've tried tesco and the qeues are horrendous. I much prefer going to one of the other garages aroun because there is less of a qeue in them even though the petrol might be a little bit more.

Fair play to the Roscommon lads in the van.
I hope they didnt crash on the way home

Draupnir

Nice thing is living beside Tesco Finglas!

Our man in Havana

What is the margin on a litre of petrol?

dcGT

Originally posted by Bond-007
What is the margin on a litre of petrol?

That would be very interesting to know!
DC.