Eliminate waste? Walmart should start selling bulk oil. People can bring their own jugs or buy reusable jugs and have the oil pumped into them from 55-gallon drums in the service center. They can then really reduce the prices.
Havoline Pro-RS Hits the Shelves (Walmart)
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RightThat's why I put III+ in quotes. I wasn't quoting the article.
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I read the article from Novvi. They do refer to their base oil as Group III+ even though that designation is not official.
They also say it has no esters so there goes the idea that it is a Group V base as well.
@bdcardinal can confirm this - bulk oil is not always cheaper than WM's prices for bottled oil.
Yup, found out this one the hard way with one of our deliveries a few months ago.
$22.47 for 5W-30
Yeah a lot of blenders and manufacturers do that including ExxonMobil.
I have thought about this for years and it's really baffling to me why this isn't a thing. Tons of saved plastic even assuming a person recycles.
WIN-WIN-WIN. The business-Customer-Planet
That's all very nice and all but bulk? Yeesh.
I mean, could be bulk Mobil, or Quaker State, etc. Could still be same oil in the 5 quart containers, just, you fill your own container.
Isn't there a place to buy oil, in bulk cases on the retail market? Besides Amazon, Warehouse clubs and Walmart Walmart. I know in Philly there is PES, but they only carry Kendall. Then there's Putnam in North Carolina, they carry several brands. But that's going to be crazy shipping.. depending on where you are located..
Befriend a moderate sized garage and ask them to sell it to you out of their tank/drum?
Unfortunately all the shops I know of use Amazon federated or Napa oil..
There are several bulk distributors here in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, I know for sue at least one of them will sell to an individual as I called them a while back about Mobil 1 ATF. The price for the ATF was cheaper than Autozone but for "regular" engine oils it was higher than Walmart.
I was at Walmart a little while ago they wanted just under $27 for Supertech 20k same price as Castrol Edge
I've been using, Kirkland synthetic, but I'm going to switch to Castrol Edge I don't do many miles, so I'm going to put that in with a Purolator boss oil filter whenever they come back in stock or a Wix filter and just keep it in for a year..
Obviously if Walmart got both 55-gallon drums and 5-quart bottles, 55-gallon drums would cost them far less per quart.
I know bulk TGMO is far cheaper than bottled TGMO. I had a brochure of the ExxonMobil TGMO quotes for Toyota dealers at one point.
Don’t forget the fixed costs for owning a bulk setup.
After the current price increases, they are probably in the $11/gal range?
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