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28-09-2009, 06:49 | #1 |
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Anyone here benefit from Tesco generosity?
Tesco has long embraced the phrase "every little helps", but it seems one of its petrol stations accidentally took price cuts a little too far.
The station fixed the pump a full six days after it was first noticed by customers The Cambridgeshire branch was swamped with motorists after a faulty pump mistakenly dispensed fuel for 40p a litre for nearly a week. Queues of traffic built up around the forecourt in Milton as word spread of the bargain price. Customers with a 50-litre tank were filling up at a saving of almost £35. They were pumping in £54 worth of 107p-a-litre petrol for only £20. Staff only learned of the error after a customer blabbed about the pump bonanza on a local radio station. An engineer fixed the problem on Friday morning - six days after it was first noticed by customers. "This was a technical fault at the pump and an engineer has now rectified the problem," a Tesco spokesman said. "Although we always aim to keep prices down at the pumps, unfortunately, we could not maintain this price indefinitely." |
28-09-2009, 10:42 | #2 |
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"Every little helps" and every customer "helped themselves to a little". Nice one!
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28-09-2009, 11:34 | #3 | |
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