France: Fuel Price Error Creates Busy Service Station
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Saturday, 05 September 2009 |
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Large numbers of motorists converged to a small service station in
Picardy (between Paris & Lille) after it accidentally knocked a
third off the price of a litre of fuel.
The self-service fuelling station in Nogent-sur-Oise, near the A1
motorway, sold 4,500 litres of petrol at €0.67 instead of €0.99 at a
total loss of €1,500. News of the discount spread fast and queues
formed on the forecourt. Some customers even brought extra containers
to make the most of the offer. The discount came to an abrupt end the
following morning when the manager arrived at work to find the pumps
were almost dry. A member of staff responsible for updating the
automatic payment system on the forecourt had typed the wrong numbers
into the computer.
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