I saw a new electronic price display at a gas station

[moribundman]

It can display prices up to $99.99 per gallon. Whoever ordered that display must have been thinking ahead (a little). I guess they'll have to modify their pumps soon.

 

[srivett]

Maybe it's meant to be used in Canada too. Our prices are usually xx.x cents per litre but super duper unleaded is up to xxx.x per litre (move a decimal on your sign and it's good to go) I've seen an ESSO sign with LEDs but I prefer the older style. It's not like they can make the 15 year old female cashier climb a pole at 2am to raise the price if the guy across the street does.

Steve

 

[Pick]

Did they get the anemometer option? You know, the one that lets the sign change prices every time the wind blows in a different direction.

Freeway stations down here are absolute thiefs

$2.39 at the freeway, drive a mile into town and its $2.13.

 

[Patman]

They've been converting a lot of the price signs here in Canada, since it won't be long before we're paying $1.00 per liter of fuel and a lot of the signs currently only display up to 99.9 cents per liter. I know some stations in small towns in Northern Ontario are over $1 per liter right now. In Toronto it's currently 91.4 cents per liter in the morning and at night it goes down into the 70-80 cent range (depending on which section of the city has a gas war that night)

I think Toronto is the only city in the world where the prices change drastically from morning to night, every single day.

 

[mikemc]

I can tell you from experience, the older style signs are a pain. The numbers are on rollers and turned by motors. They can hang up and jam. LED sounds like a better option.