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Just a flammable topic to complain about this morning. How on earth did these things get cleared to use? Saying they’re a distraction is being mild. Audiovisuals promoting whatever money can buy on a device pumping a potential high explosive and definitely volatile liquid from a great big tank into your vehicle. And they’re not so fragile as to be damaged by a punch or two. Aggravate the crap out of me. In the beginning I just stopped using stations that have them. But now they all do.

TOTALLY AGREE !!!

And they play at boomer volume. It’s obnoxious.

This is one form of obnoxious advertising. It's in the same category as the carbon tv ads we see here on the Fire. I don't know how advertisers think they'll sell stuff when their ads are so despised by the public. It's counter productive.

Convenience stores really "screwed the pooch" when they added pay at the pump...lost all the impulse buyers. If they really want to get back some of that revenue, they should make those GSTVs some sort of pay-per-view or video game?

More useless, pointless crap dreamed up some some useless millennial marketing exspurt, trying to justify his useless bullschidt job. The idiots that dream this crap up are cousins to the great marketing minds at Disney and Bud Light.

When rhey start blathering, start pushing buttons. Usually one of the buttons will silence them. Sometimes one button needs ro be pressed multiple times.

This is exactly what I do, usually one of the buttons on the left-hand side is a mute button.

I just ignore it. Problem solved.

Bunch a dern one arm bandits!!
Damn them to hell!!

I hate that they don’t take my Diner’s Club out there at that sophisticated NASA terminal.

There are still pumps around up here that are analog and you have to tell the old guy inside how much you pumped.

Most times I just pull in there with my 90ft cattle trailer and block about 4 pump islands. I lock my nozzle lever down and wander inside the take a crap in the john and then I wander over to the attached side diner Maria’s Greasy Wagon Wheel and order liver n onions, then afterwards I go browse the Swisher Sweets before heading out.

It's hard to ignore noise so loud that my hearing aids squeal.

They are wildly annoying and thankfully have decreased in usage in these parts. I routinely inquired inside the stores as to where the volume could be controlled. I wanted to make sure they knew how g0d damn annoying I thought they are.

Since I discovered the sinclair app and the 20/30 cents a gallon discounts, I just go to those stations by and large. No more ads for me.

But you N E E D Add-A-Tech.......

Around here, Sinclair stations are generally 20 cents or more higher than Costco or Walmart. The app gives no savings.

I rarely visit stations that have them, but I've read that there is a mute button.

It works, or has for me. Thinking I read this here & when the screen started blaring I couldn't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd button. It was the second. Kindof a fuzzy feeling, throwing an ad block on their chit.

Step away from the pump-----

🤣🤣🤣

Life. Get one. You can't turn off people or life etc.... I suppose ones I go to talk too. I've rarely heard em. I know 2 stations I use have them. I remember some noise at some point..

Certain you are right, to some extent.

When I mentioned that theory to my C-Store Manager wife years ago,
she said it's funny that so many pay at the pump, then come in anyway.

Worked for me today.
Thank you!

Couple of places I bought gas had them for a while but don't now. I was irritated by them

Gas pumps remind me of self checkout

Where’s my w-2 ?

I’d rather walk

I was always such a failure on book report day in my one-room schoolhouse. I’d rather have been playing with my pet piglet.


Argggggghhhh!!!

Wabi tells me some of the gas pumps are green now for Christmas. That's festive.

If a person is that close to catastrophe while doing something as simple a pumping gasoline, someone should take their license away.

Imagine a scenario where the steps are 1) insert the nozzle in your tank, and 2) squeeze the handle, and because there is TV audio he forgets 1) and dumps gas on himself while smoking. That isn't the sort of brain anyone wants driving on public roads.

So nice

I took a picture with my 9ft usb cable kodak 1.2 megapixel and printed of nice 8x10 of the gas station lady Imogene as she was refilling the hot dog roller. So nice.
I like the way she wraps a towel paper arou9d my wiener and gives me extra stadium mustard

Maybe - but most just leave their vehicle there while they walk in for other stuff......blocking the damned pump until they saunter on back..

Many around here had to go to 'pay at the pump' or 'pre-pay' due to the plethora of drive-offs since the pandemic - especially with them vehicles sportin' blue & white plates...

Very true. The first few times I used them it startled the hell out of me.

Agree 100%

Talking gas pimps are a new one on me. We are primitive up here, I guess. I like it that way.

When I first hit the ground up here, they had a real gas pump in Hope. Glass 5 gallon glass bottle on top that you manually pumped full, or to whatever level, and then gravity drained into the vehicle. Then went inside, told owner what you pumped and paid for it. If there was a price posted, it was likely hand written on a piece of cardboard and taped to the pump. Pretty cool. Jaw jacking was free....What could go wrong?

No drive-offs either. He kept a rifle behind the counter, "For the bears", which sometimes wandered through town towards their fueling station in the creek.

When prices went nuts (2007?) drive offs became a real problem,
the company my wife works for went "Pay before pumping".


It didn't take long to see a big increase of the pay at the pump option,
which increased credit sales over cash sales. To the tune of between$2500 and $3000 in extra credit card fees. Per month, per station.

They did away with that requirement, except at their stations serving more travelers.
Training.... and management enforcing the procedures, reduced drive offs to a few
per month. $4-500 in drive offs is better than paying the banks $3000.






P.S. The stations that allow pumping before you pay did not publicize it.
Just kinda let it happen. As it became known, they picked up quite a bit
of business from local, cash customers. Folks really don't like going in to prepay,
then chasing down their change, sometimes waiting in line twice....myself included!


It's funny to see city folk come in to prepay.
Three explanations, darn near have to do pictographs.

"Just fill it up, come back in and pay!"

They can't process it,😳😳😳😳

I hate the mfers. Makes me want to throw my cordless drill and a couple of construction screws in the pickup.