Originally Posted By: Falken
But I may go Garak's route and just go to the Shell distributor and get them to order me Pennzoil Ultra 5W20 3 jugs at a time.
Read my rant
here. It's getting worse, at least in Regina. Walmart is doing the Canadian Tire thing of having almost no stock for an advertised sale. After all, why sell product at little markup (or perhaps a loss) when you can sucker people into coming in all the same and finding no stock, all the while you can sell them the same product next week at over 100% markup? And they know darned well that the vast majority of people won't ask the clueless guy on the floor, much less wait in line half an hour at "Customer Service," only to have them verify that it's out of stock.
Partsource ran out of Pennzoil conventional over two weeks ago on their month long Pennzoil conventional sale. At least NAPA is a little easier to deal with in that regard, since the good stuff is always in the back, or can be brought in. But, yes, their sales are a bit sporadic. They'll have a sale each month for two or three in a row, then they've got nothing for a while.
As for Pennzoil Ultra jugs, they might make you buy a box of 4 jugs. At least the last time I bought boxes of SOPennzoil UltraS jugs, they were boxes of 4, and some distributors only sell by the case/box/pail/drum, depending upon the product. Wakefield does 4 jugs, I'm pretty sure. Valvoline stuff might come in boxes of 3, but I'm not positive. Imperial oil provides jugs in boxes of four as well. I have no idea what Husky does with Chevron stuff out this way, though. Out east, I think there are actual Chevron distributors.
