Petrol prices
- 23 January 2009 10:2913576working in london last two weeks petol is 84.9 and that is in Chelsea so why in DOVER 89.9
i remain yours faithfully vic matcham - 23 January 2009 16:1113608Had the following Press Info in today from AA Research..
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FUEL PRICE REPORT JANUARY 2009
UK petrol prices have started to rise again after falling to less than 86 PencePerLitre in early January. Conflict in Gaza and the dispute between Russia and the Ukraine helped to push the price of oil back above $50 for a while and the weakening pound has contributed to higher wholesale prices.
Unleaded prices have fallen by 2.9 ppl from 89.5ppl to 86.6ppl. Diesel prices have fallen by 3.2ppl, from 101.9ppl to 98.7ppl. The price difference between unleaded and diesel has fallen from 12.4ppl to 12.1ppl
London, East Anglia and the South West recorded the highest price for unleaded at 87ppl.
The North West recorded the lowest price for unleaded at 86.1ppl. Wales recorded the highest diesel price at 99.3ppl. Yorkshire and Humberside have the cheapest diesel at 98.1ppl.
Supermarket prices for unleaded also fell over the month by 4ppl to 84.3ppl. The gap between supermarket prices and the UK average for unleaded has risen to 2.3ppl.
Overseas prices have also fallen. The UK has the thirteenth highest unleaded price in Europe and the fifth highest diesel price.
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The UK average is 86.6 pence per litre so taking into account Vic's quote above this morning Dover well higher than the UK average.
email: dover7@msn.com - 23 January 2009 17:2213616All I say about this is when you have to go outside Dover to do your shoping because we have no shops get your fuel at the same time if we boycott them they will have to fall in line with the rest I am doing it but it will take alot more then just me doing it.
vic m - 23 January 2009 19:0013641Vic - it's not true to say we have no shops here; we NEED people to shop here or it won't be too long before that statement is true.
Roger - 23 January 2009 20:3613663roger
with the present level of service from a lot of our local shops, they do not deserve to remain open.
it seems to get worse by the week.
i go to folkestone and deal when i can, where the service, in general, is much friendlier and polite.
this was never the case a few years back. - 23 January 2009 21:2213671I have try only last week went to have a look at new T,V, about £600 and i did not like the way the person talked to me,you can not talk to like that if you work in a shop because you just like Idid walk away. We are still looking to buy one but i do not think it will be in this town and i am sorry to say that.
Vic matcham - 24 January 2009 09:0013699Maybe we need a properly organised Dover Mystery Shopper set up here and the results fed back to the businesses - trouble is it could/would be open to abuse, but it might wake up some businesses.
Roger - 24 January 2009 09:0713701Roger, We should not have to do things like that, if i had a shop I would always treat the public well when they came in, because it was my living,no public, no income, no shop, no wages, end of story.
Vic M - 24 January 2009 09:4413706I know that Vic, but many big shops have properly organised Mystery shoppers - you must have heard of them.
Many people are in the service industry, but have no idea about offering a good service and as we know if you get crap service, you won't go back in that shop.
Roger - 24 January 2009 09:4713708I've always found Dovers shop keepers to be very friendly, especially the smaller independents. We need to shop in Dover where possible to stop these shops becoming bill boards.
However like the shops the petrol stations must remain competitive, otherwise people (like myself) will simply go somewhere else. - 24 January 2009 13:4713718I have to say that nearly all the shops I use in Dover are very good with their service. I say nearly all as there is one (close to the rear of St Mary's Church) that has two or three (not all) of their staff that could do with a customer care course.
Oh yes and there is one petrol station where one member of staff, does nothing but complain about being there. I often feel like saying to her if you do not like it move on and let some one else have the job that does want it.
Hey! but lets support the shops in our town first. "Buy British and shop Dover".
- 24 January 2009 16:0013733Went to morrinsons in Canterbury today petol 84.9 so what did i do got both shoping and fuel deed I say anymore sorry but that is the way it is.
vic Matcham - 25 January 2009 08:2113779Wow! that is cheap Vic. More than 5p a litre cheaper than here in Dover. Gawd its enough to make yer blow a gasket on yer Maserati.
Are you sure that figure of 89.9 in your top posting was accurate Vic ?? Seems a huge variation there in price levels.email: dover7@msn.com - 25 January 2009 09:4613781Yes it is right PAUL I went to 3 outlets in Dover all was 89.9 been to ones out side Dover and london both were 84.9 so you can see just one thing Dover is dear so as i said if you have to go out of Dover for one you get the lot Dover lost out by just over £100pounds and i am just one if 100 of the pubic do that each day that is £100.000 gone in one day + that by seven need i say anymore
Vic Matcham - 25 January 2009 10:1813789Vic how much did it cost in petrol to get to Canterbury .Bus pass into Dover Free delivery from Summerfields and bobs your uncle .The one big thing I need to get outside of Dover exuse the pun is clothes Size 16 if im lucky .Im hard;ly New Look or Mark One .So regretably its out of Dover .Presents yes plenty of places in Dover .I dont replace my furniture very often its like a man if you get what you like in the first place why change .Takes time to get the right one sometimes ,probably why im here just with the cat Still its fun window shopping ..
- 25 January 2009 10:4413791I did not go to Canterbury just for fuel but I already know that fuel was 84.9 there also the new morrinsons there is very good when the one comes to our town then i will think about doing our shoping there but for now we make aday of it going away from Dover for the day last week it was Sevenoaks this week the city next week who knows but Lesly and myself have a good time out with each other, there are parts of dover we love the front the cliffs E,T,C, and also we get our meat in Dover but for the rest we go outside.
Vic Matcham - 25 January 2009 14:2713823Vic cant resist many years ago my late husband and I decided to have away days some times a picnic in a pleasant area /Well change of scenery good fresh air who knows but as you well know i have a young son 15 years age gap between him and his sister .Well the shock must have killed husband as he died two years later .Sad but rather amusing .Make the most of your days together ,I have posted on another thread a dear friend of mine is not good .Still life is not all sad .A sense of humour keeps you going .I to like Morrisons there are several in the Midlands ,
- 25 January 2009 14:3813824Sue, it is true that we often don't value what we have until it is gone - my Dad, whom I idolised, died last Spring and never a day passes when I don't wish I could let him know, better than I did, what he meant to us all. Yes, let's value the time we have together, whoever we are.
- 25 January 2009 14:3813825On a lighter note - I am looking for local work - i can be a mystery shopper - gissa job!!
- 26 January 2009 14:0713908I visited Faversham yesterday, 83.9 - so thats 17 miles down the road! No doubt about it, we are having the pi$$ taken out of us!