• dan@upvote.au
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      2 days ago

      I’m from Australia and remember when gas hit $1/litre in the 90s. The pumps could handle it, but the signs only had space for two digits (cents) so petrol stations (as we call them in Australia) had a hand-painted “1” at the start of the price, until they could upgrade the signs.

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      4 days ago

      I can 100% guarantee that that is not why they closed. Adding an extra decimal point to assign isn’t in trouble. Handling an order of magnitude of change to your pricing structure, however, isn’t.

      Is gas stations closed because they sell below the minimum level that their parent corporation found acceptable for a profit versus loss scenario. If you think it came to anything, other than that, I won’t waste a bullet, blowing your brains out, because you already have no brains.