Oh, I know what it is! Cutting your customer some slack is deemed to be criminal by "The Powers That Be" because said powers NEVER CUT ANYBODY ANY SLACK - AT ALL... EVER! Hence they'll naturally disapprove of any "kind-hearted merchant" doing so... RIGHT! Has to be this because, really, lowering one's price in this day and age simply cannot be a "competitive advantage" - and the only way anyone could call it "unfair" is due to the monetary losses incurred when one does that! The customer truly would be the only winner there - because, for the commerce, lowering its price in order to attract more customers does NOT translate into more revenue: not if your costs are as high as your competition's and word-of-mouth is limited on top of that! You operate at a loss and only wind up supplying a SERVICE to the COMMUNITY!
THAT will NOT make you rich - you may be LOVED, for a while anyway, by all those who are saving a few bucks thanks to your uncommon altruism, but that is about IT!
And IT sure won't last either...!
A service to the community at large is all it winds up being, hence.
And that cannot be approved of - HEAVEN Forbid that it would be...!
Or rather, HELL did.
Oops - it wasn't the gas station's actual owner that had decided to do this? It was merely one of his unreliable, non-trustworthy clerks...? Kevin Smith's kind of clerks! Rednecks from the deep south (West Virginia to be specific!)
Never mind my diatribe about rendering a service to the community then - it doesn't apply to those who merely steal from the job to give to their buddies!
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*lol*
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6 accused in cheap-gas scheme
Mon Jan 21, 3:34 PM ET
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A gas station clerk is accused of defrauding her boss out of nearly $50,000 by selling fuel to her family and friends for a tenth of a penny a gallon.
Police arrested 25-year-old Madeline Jordan on Sunday — along with her mother, brother, a cousin and two others — after setting up a sting at the BP station in South Charleston.
The station's owner told police last week he had noticed a significant drop in his income and found receipts that listed the deeply discounted rate.
Police alleged that for several months Jordan, of Nitro, had reset the price at the pumps every Sunday morning and allowed people she knew to fill up.
There was no immediate word if any of the six had secured attorneys to speak for them. The Kanawha County Courthouse was closed Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., and calls to the South Charleston Police Department were not answered.
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Who wants cheap gas anyway, I ask you?
The best things in life are FREE!
Everybody knows that!
;)
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