Topaz

glanman

Just wondering how many Topaz are there in Ireland and how many are wholey owned by topaz and how many are just franchised

Thanks

Anan1

Why not ring Topaz and ask them?

glanman

Didn't think of that. I just found out, its 110 are company owned out of 350. Thanks

no1beemerfan

glanman wrote: »

Just wondering how many Topaz are there in Ireland and how many are wholey owned by topaz and how many are just franchised

Thanks

You must be bored!!

smash

While you're on to them ask them why their prices are so random between each station!

glanman

I needed to know for work.

I would presume their prices are all over the place because about 240 of them are independent and set the prices themselves??? if you want best petrol/deisel prices go to www.pumps.ie

Berty

steve06 wrote: »

While you're on to them ask them why their prices are so random between each station!

Each station is priced against it nearest competition. Myself and OH used to manage 3 Shell sites a few years back.

You are priced on your nearest competitor and not what the entire group is doing. We used to have to drive up and down the main road every morning at 6:30am and write down the prices and then phone them in. 30 minutes later we would get a phone call to tell us what to change our prices to.

johndaman66

Berty wrote: »

Each station is priced against it nearest competition.

Finally some bit of truth. I argued this point with a trainee manager in a sizeable filling station before. He argued that prices were based on the quantity of fuel the retailer bought while my argument was prices were based pretty much on what other filling stations in the same town/ area were charging. Thanks Berty.

godtabh

glanman wrote: »

Didn't think of that. I just found out, its 110 are company owned out of 350. Thanks

steve06 wrote: »

While you're on to them ask them why their prices are so random between each station!

Probably down to Paddy looking out for number one rather than Topaz

Berty

johndaman66 wrote: »

Finally some bit of truth. I argued this point with a trainee manager in a sizeable filling station before. He argued that prices were based on the quantity of fuel the retailer bought while my argument was prices were based pretty much on what other filling stations in the same town/ area were charging. Thanks Berty.

Well, if you are a privately owned site then your wholesale price for fuel would be higher than others.

Take Centra for example. They are operated on local level but are part of the Musgrave group so buy things much cheaper as a group but if you are Berty stores on XX street then you buy at a higher margin so the only way for those people to reduce their prices is to increase their orders.

I sell a product at the moment and if you buy 45 I give you 3 free but if you buy 90 I give you 10 free.

There was a certain petrol station owner in Limerick on the Late Late show a few years back trying to argue the same point so Shell dropped his wholesale price. He never dropped his actual retail prices. Nobody likes that site and only those desperate in Limerick or non Limerick people use that site.

johndaman66

Berty wrote: »

There was a certain petrol station owner in Limerick on the Late Late show a few years back trying to argue the same point so Shell dropped his wholesale price. He never dropped his actual retail prices. Nobody likes that site and only those desperate in Limerick or non Limerick people use that site.

Without seing or knowing of the Late Late show program you mention Berty and being a Limerick resident I think I have a fair idea of the filling station in question.