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Originally Posted by ngdawg
NJ stations also cannot change or raise their prices more than once in any given 24 hours, so many times you may see 3 stations on one road and a difference of 20c a gallon in a given day because of when they last changed the price. Right now, the BP around the corner from me is charging 2.88 but the other two on the same street are charging 3.19. And on Monday, I paid 2.49 a gallon at a Citgo when 2 others in the area were at 2.55.
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This is due to contracts that have been established between the corporations and the jobbers/dealers who own their own site but are still branded with the corporations logo and sell the corporations fuel. The corporations must give the jobbers/dealers the ability to remain semi-competitive.