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[Mike K.]

If we were to justify every action and engagement based on a monetary value it would defeat the purpose of many things we do throughout the day.

If someone can expend the time to drive 40 minutes to a store obviously there is value in the trip for that individual and value doesn't always equate to something we can put a dollar figure on.

[jklymak]

^ While I agree with you in general, I hope you don't mean that a 40 minute trip to Costco has some value to you beyond the money you save.

[seymour201]

If you are shopping at Costco any ways, it's not going to cost you more to get gas while you're there.

I'm just happy that there is finally some fluctuation in our prices here. If you travel just about anywhere else in Canada yo see that the prices always vary from station to station, and from time of day. In Halifax one station comes to mind that every Thursday from 1 till 4 the price dropped 5 cents. And they didn't hide it. Its sad that it took Costco to finally break the unwritten rule in Victoria that everyone changes there price in the same 30 minute window.

[piltdownman]

I went to costco tonight, $1.01/l, plus now I'm in a race to see if I can eat a dozen butter croissants and 15 Portuguese buns before they go bad.

[Mike K.]

^ While I agree with you in general, I hope you don't mean that a 40 minute trip to Costco has some value to you beyond the money you save.

It's more like a 20 minute trip from downtown, but yes, I realize more value from the trip than just money saved on gas.

[piltdownman]

My question about costco gas is its low price just to entice people to shop at costco more? or is it that they just have lower costs and are trying to make money on volume?

[Mike K.]

87 octane @ 99.9 at Costco today, 105.9 elsewhere.

[Bingo]

Gas is 104.9 at Hillside and Shelbourne.

[Mike K.]

Looks like some Shell and Petro Can stations preempt other stations in town. Some have been 1.049 since Friday while other stations remained at 059.

[LJ]

About $.65 a litre in Phoenix.

Makes driving fun again.

[Bingo]

103.9 today

[Bingo]

A brief blip, its at 104.9 again this morning.

[Bingo]

Dec. 13th. gas at 102.9

[Sparky]

94.4 in Fort McMurray Friday. Watch out for sand in your tank.

[Mike K.]

I was in Edmonton a few days ago and the gas was 80.4 at Costco. Yesterday at the Victoria costco it was 98.9.

[Layne French]

not surprising, i think it is 85.9 here at normal gas stations.

[Bingo]

Gas is 105.9 in Victoria

[Holden West]

There's an Esso station in Langford that's still at 99.4. He must be some crazy independent.

[Mike K.]

If that's the case then Costco must still be several cents lower than him. Costco's goal is to always have the lowest prices in town.

[Holden West]

My Langford contact (everybody should have one) tells me that particular Esso station is always a penny or so lower. If your theory is right Mike, I wonder if it's a loss leader by Esso to force Costco's profit margin down by forcing them to match?