What is this new world we live in, where Speedway’s price hikes aren’t obeyed? Enough competitors, and enough Speedway stations, have been ignoring price hikes, which is good for most of us, and prices have quickly found their way back towards the 0-cent margin price.
Now, why is this happening? In my last posting, [...]
0 comments Tuesday 24 May 2005 | Ed Aboufadel | Predictions
I wonder if someone at Speedway is going to be fired soon. For the second time in three weeks, the price hike e-mail went out to the stations, and then chaos insued. This is what I saw on Lake Michigan Drive last week: in the late morning, prices went up to $2.27. [...]
0 comments Sunday 15 May 2005 | Ed Aboufadel | Predictions
It’s 9:40AM, and I see on grandrapidsgasprices.com that Speedway has started the price hike to $2.27, a day later than I predicted. Lash me with a wet noodle. This new price is 3 cents above the 20-cent margin price, as we’ve seen occur in past years in May. Now to turn attention [...]
0 comments Wednesday 11 May 2005 | Ed Aboufadel | Predictions
Hello everyone! Hope you’re enjoying your weekend. For those who don’t
yet know, I am heading south (just a bit) for the summer to Sandusky,
Ohio. Also, for those who don’t know, there is a rather large
amusement park where I am working. I will try and keep this updated,
but sometimes, I’ll be putting in very long days.
As [...]
0 comments Sunday 08 May 2005 | Patrick | Predictions
The rendevous with $2, predicted on Monday, has arrived, as the price hike predicted for Thursday did not. We’re at the 0-cent margin price, now, so there’s a price hike coming Monday or Tuesday. I’ll be filling up first thing Monday morning. I was WRONG about a price hike on [...]
0 comments Friday 06 May 2005 | Ed Aboufadel | Predictions
Hello everyone, hope you are enjoying the sun that we saw in Grand
Rapids today!
Back to the topic at hand-
this is a tough call on gas prices this week. We had very positive
reports from the DOE and API about oil inventories (DOE says a 4 mil
barrel rise, API says over TEN mil barrel rise!!)
I don’t see [...]
0 comments Wednesday 04 May 2005 | Patrick | Predictions
