How Sacked Was This Fore Court Worker

A nice, good news story I think, but a little aggrieved I wasn't in the Bradford area, when due to human error, probably called Kevin. Asda set their forecourt fuel price by misplacing the decimal point! BBC News - Asda sold 12.9p petrol by mistake in Bradford Instead of selling it for £1.29. The unmanned pay at the kiosk machines had been set to charge at 12.9 pence per litre! This became, somewhat unsurprisingly, the most popular fuel stop in the Bradford area, one bloke paid £4.23 for 32.77litres of petrol. At normal prices that would have been £42! saving himself a rather tidy, £38. And yes, there did appear to be the 'odd' person returning to fill jerry cans of fuel.
And the moral of this story? Well according to the trading standards officer '"Generally speaking retailers, whether they sell petrol or whatever, generally have to sell it at the price it is advertised at," he said."So if it is advertised at the pump at a low price, then it is just a bit of good fortune for the consumer'. This fuel bonanza lasted from10.30pm to 12.30am, when the pumps were shut down after alarms was raised. I imagine the alarms were two fold. The police apparently arriving to manage the queue of cars and the petrol pumps being drained in two hours!

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