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Applegreen - Friday 24th €2.47

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  • #62
    okidoki987
    Registered Users Posts: 10,615 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    fletch wrote: »
    Why? There are 193 Applegreen stations in Ireland...what's so special about Ballinteer?

    Would have been closest one to me :cool:


  • #63
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Any of the Mayo outlets have the offer?


  • #64
    GBX
    Registered Users Posts: 11,900 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    It should have been in all today

    How bad it was in the random ones they chose, it would have been ten times worse if they had have done that.


  • #65
    Darc19
    Registered Users Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Wheety wrote: »
    There has to be another way of doing it. Maybe select a number of random people through the app and give them the offer with a week to use it.

    For those of a certain age, 5 Star supermarkets gave green shield stamps. Mondays and Tuesdays you got double stamps, but on Wednesday they gave ten customers, ten times the stamps.
    It was done by a bell ringing sporadically on the different tills. Always left a great feeling if you got it and it attracted customers.

    AG missed an opportunity - I'd have gone for 24 customers randomly selected at every station would pay €2.47 for whatever fuel they had put into the car and a display showing how many were left.


  • #66
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    Traffic mayhem in Galway today because of this


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  • #67
    Kh1993
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Kh1993


    I didn’t get petrol in the end, Swords was mayhem. I’m sure someone in AG expected some traffic chaos. No problem with randomly picking locations but some of them were always going to be traffic nightmares (Swords Main St, Inchicore etc).

    However I got car washes, lunch, keep cups, and Stocked up on drinks and chocolate for 20 quid that would have Cost a fortune somewhere else. So can’t complain too much.


  • #68
    gussieg
    Registered Users Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭gussieg


    is the offer still on for the drinks and sweets?


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    How do people find out about the petrol price? Is it just on Facebook? Or did they change the price on the big roadside signs, too?

    They would have been better off asking people to sign up to their app (Im sure they have one) and the prices will be revealed in the app only. Roadside signage will still show 'normal' prices, but price at the pump will be 24.7. This way the odd randomer who's opting for applegreen to fill up wins, just for using them in the first place. It would encourage sign ups to their app, and roadside chaos wouldn't occur as those who didnt need fuel or who wouldn't normally use applegreen just sail on past the normally-priced signage.

    Win win for all involved?


  • #70
    Kh1993
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Kh1993


    gussieg wrote: »
    is the offer still on for the drinks and sweets?

    Yeah, what’s left of them anyway. I’d say they’re running low


  • #71
    Kh1993
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Kh1993


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    How do people find out about the petrol price? Is it just on Facebook? Or did they change the price on the big roadside signs, too?

    They would have been better off asking people to sign up to their app (Im sure they have one) and the prices will be revealed in the app only. Roadside signage will still show 'normal' prices, but price at the pump will be 24.7. This way the odd randomer who's opting for applegreen to fill up wins, just for using them in the first place. It would encourage sign ups to their app, and roadside chaos wouldn't occur as those who didnt need fuel or who wouldn't normally use applegreen just sail on past the normally-priced signage.

    Win win for all involved?

    The signs changed afaik. Also publicised on RTE radio and most of the news websites had a story about it. Tbh it seemed like a lot of people knew where to wait before the announcements.


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  • #72
    okidoki987
    Registered Users Posts: 10,615 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    Kh1993 wrote: »
    Tbh it seemed like a lot of people knew where to wait before the announcements.

    That is certainly true based on some of the queues immediately after announcing where they were doing them.
    Heard there were loads of cars waiting in the car park in certain stations.
    Lot of staff would have had to be told beforehand and a simple text message to one goes to another 2 and so on.


  • #73
    naraicjul
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭naraicjul


    Pretty terrible idea - there was gridlock in many towns yesterday because of this offer.


  • #74
    H8GHOTI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭H8GHOTI


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Any Cork have fuel at the special price?

    North Ring Rd did. Crazy traffic from every direction. I left the queue & went home when I saw how busy it was.

    Surprised how quickly people got there. Wonder did employees already know and word spread through family and friends?

    I did hear that some people queued at a different station that weren’t even doing the promotion. How annoying would that be when you realised :-)


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