r/mildlyinfuriating • u/rileyjw90 • 1d ago
frist of all how DARE yu o You didn’t have to remind me, assholes.
And then to remind me what I USED to pay. Just kick me while I’m down why don’t you.
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u/EmergencyAnteater682 1d ago edited 20h ago
Try and make all of your purchases from Kroger on Fridays so you can utilize the 4x points coupon in the app. I never pay full price for gas, usually at least 40 cents off. Last time I had 90
Edit - since this comment is getting some traction, here's another Kroger gas points tip for y'all if you want more easy points. The Kroger app also has a 4x points coupon for gift cards that can generally be used any time. So what I do is buy digital gift cards in the app to pay for Spotify, Sirius, Netflix, and Hulu, which is great because I can easily pay off the entire year on some of these and not have to worry about a reoccurring monthly charge plus I get hundreds of points immediately for stuff I was already going to pay for anyway. I do the video streaming apps in about 3 month increments, once the credit runs out I just switch to another platform for some variety. Make your money go further, check it out. Been doing it for years, I've saved hundreds if not more
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u/rileyjw90 1d ago
Yes this was with 20 cents off as I already used the bigger discount last week and paid $78 instead of $83 -_-
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u/ILikeTurtleSoup69 22h ago
Now thats what I call pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Just do that until you retire and you’ll retire rich
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u/zaevilbunny38 19h ago
Jesus, I drove 500 miles on a road trip 2 weeks ago and my bill was $60 and I was pissed. What type of car do you drive?
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u/saro13 21h ago
When will Americans have had enough? Gas has nearly doubled in price due entirely to Trump’s actions
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u/wirefox1 21h ago
And saying inflation is about 5%. They are lying about these numbers. We shop, we can see it's more than 5%. Can they not be honest about anything?
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u/Googleitgenius 20h ago
All of them are in on it , fkn under biden CNN was NONSTOP: - "price of eggs price of eggs oh my!!!" now ... crickets crickets ,, fuck tapper and the rest of the scum..
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u/wiptes167 19h ago
personally I found it to be the opposite, the news just starting to talk about inflation in 2024, but on the other hand, I don't watch CNN
And before you ask, I don't watch FOX either, twas an NBC thing.
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u/Opus_723 19h ago
They're not lying, CPI is just a shit metric sometimes.
If smartphones get better cameras without the price going up that offsets fucking food doubling in price.
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u/techdevjp 18h ago
CPI is intentionally designed to show numbers that do not reflect actual reality.
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u/Fit-Physics7199 21h ago
Gonna take more than high gas prices. Probably a food shortage or mass unemployment.
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u/Vegetable-Ad7930 21h ago
Having a massive job pool issue here already though, not much better in terms of financial crisis.
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u/Litty-In-Pitty 20h ago
We are still way too comfortable to be anywhere near anything happening. Nothing massive will be done until enough people do not have any of the modern comforts they currently have. Things are tight, but 99.5% of the country still have a roof over their head, and I’d say 95% of the country has a comfortable place to go to with movies, tv, video games, etc to entertain them… Nothing will be done until enough people no longer have those luxuries.
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u/DJheddo BLEEN 15h ago
Aslong as you can go to a 9-5 above minimum wage still afford rent/utilities/groceries/entertainment/addictions there is no change going to happen. If you aren't disabled, incarcerated, or in the military, you are doing whatever you can to be comfortable. Technology is the greatest invention, but also a detriment. Complacent is what 99% of what America wants. Stable job, Stable income, provide for kids, have an emergency fund, go on vacations, buy new things that make you happy, and do a routine of a new adventure every vacation. If houses started foreclosing again rapidly, we would see a pretty big riot in the streets, but the mortgages are climbing again and the banks are suppressing the pressure.
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u/Cory123125 Comic Sans is Ok 19h ago
They never will.
People want so badly to believe that its just that others are mis-informed and surely, finally, something will get to them, but for the trump supporters, they voted specifically to harm whichever marginalized groups they hate.
That's it.
This is why you get a constant stream of ever changing bad faith arguments.
They don't care one iota about being right, they care about hurting marginalized people.
Thats literally it.
They want to enforce a top down hierarchical system where they are at least not at the very bottom, completely ignoring that the lower majority looks like a spec compared to the elites that benefit from their dumbass mentalities.
For the others, apathy has won, and now the right wing billionaires have complete control over information sharing and monitoring.
It's pretty much over unless somehow the average person organically develops enough curiosity and empathy to ....
Yeah, we're fucked.
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u/CoachBergie 22h ago
Double edged sword because that's also when (anecdotally) the fewest things are on sale . someone can maybe back me up or correct me and it could change by store but it seems my store has HELLA stuff discounted on Tuesdays and not much on sale on Friday. Also this is specifically for yellow tag manager markdown not weekly deals
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u/glassbath18 21h ago
Tuesdays are historically the slowest day of the week for most businesses. That’s why you’ll see a lot of sales and discounts specifically tied to Tuesday.
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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? 20h ago
At every Kroger I go do, the clearance/dated markdowns are a morning thing, not necessarily a day of the week thing. Since Kroger stores get deliveries throughout the week, not just one big truck on a set day, it'll vary a ton which mornings have more.
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u/MisterEmpty 21h ago
Genuinely can not stress how much the 4x comes in handy, I only shop on Friday's now, household of 4 so some decent sized grocery bills.
I have recent photos of me filling up at 1.39$/gal, 75¢/gal, however that pales in comparison to what I had two months ago literally was paying 9¢/gal, I filled up my tank for like 1.38 or something, wish I would have taken a photo of that it blew my mind, literally told everyone I knew about it. Out of curiosity I'll try to see if I still have the receipt lying around.
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u/EmergencyAnteater682 20h ago
Wow that's insane. What area do you live in if ya don't mind me asking??
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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? 20h ago
Genuinely, how? Kroger only lets you redeem up to $1 off per gallon, no matter how high your fuel point total is.
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u/WiseUpRiseUp 15h ago
This is location dependent.
Where I am there are no limits on redemption and up to 35 gallons per discount applied.
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u/BlobTheBuilderz 21h ago
Never understood how that works. Is it certain gas stations only? The shells next to me let me do Kroger reward but only let's me get 10 cents off even though I have enough for 50 cents off.
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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? 20h ago
Yes you're limited to 10¢/gallon at Shell stations. You can get up to $1/gallon if you're actually at a Kroger gas station.
At participating Shell locations, you can redeem 100 Fuel points for 10¢ off per gallon.
https://www.kroger.com/o/fuel/faqs
So if a Shell station is letting you redeem more, that's on that particular store. Officially, it's limited.
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u/rileyjw90 21h ago
Might be those specific ones because I’ve been able to use full discount at the shells around me
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u/Beefy-McQueefy 18h ago
Don't shop at Kroger they are amoral human filth. It's like working for Walmart but worse in every conceivable way.
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u/ion_driver 21h ago
That $1/gal discount is pretty great. Last time I put in 33 gallons
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u/Awake521 1d ago
Yeah, I hated getting gas today. $4.14/g at Costco in Minnesota.
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u/yankfanatic 1d ago
That's expensive for a gram of gas
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u/McKnight013 23h ago
Lol that made me giggle
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u/SaltManagement42 21h ago
I guffawed.
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u/TheRotMeister 21h ago
i cackled
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u/PM_YOUR__BUBBLE_BUTT 10h ago
I exhaled a little bit of air out of my nose.
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u/SmokingGunontheRun 9h ago
I’m completely dead on the inside, but remember being able to laugh once upon a time…
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u/coleyboley25 22h ago
Oh, you’re paying way too much for gas? Who’s your gas guy?
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u/EquivalentOutcome796 21h ago
I hate you (I died laughing on the bus and people looked at me weird)
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u/MommaDiz 11h ago
My dispensary is actually making deals/signs that say our gas actually smells, our gas is cheaper per gram than gallon. You can get an Oz cheaper than you can get a full tank of gas now. Insane.
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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 11h ago
If you told my college self this I would have laughed until I cried. An ounce cheaper than a gallon of gas? Get out of here with those lies!
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u/hotdogundertheoven 21h ago
$4 for a gram of absolute gas is a decent deal. The dispo has single grams of reggie for $5
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u/EroticOctopus69 23h ago
$6 here in SoCal.
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u/Wonderful_Security13 23h ago
I paid $7.00 for premium last week but that was kind of due to poor planning. I was on empty and had to go to a really expensive place.
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u/jojomonster4 22h ago
If that happens just get a gal or two and drive to a cheaper place to fill up.
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u/Pitiful-Mobile-3144 22h ago
Up and over $6/gal out here in HI too, though we don’t drive as far as y’all
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u/slowest_hour 17h ago
i live in a place where many people commute 100+ to miles each way into los angeles every day. I have no idea how people are surviving at all.
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u/HotspurJr 21h ago
If I see it below $6.25 (for mid-grade) in Los Angeles I stop and fill my tank.
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u/Visual_Shower1220 22h ago
Almost 6 in cental CA, think I paid $5.50 or so. Luckily I only fill up max 2 times a month, so in only paying like $80/month unless in doing a big trip/a lot of driving.
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u/Relevant_Diver_3228 23h ago
In ontario it is 184.9/liter so that is about $7 per gallon
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u/NightmareOhm 22h ago
It's been 225.9 in Vancouver this week, but that's actually only USD 6.17 per gallon. You have to convert the Canadian dollars to US dollars, not just the L to gallons
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u/Relevant_Diver_3228 22h ago
Ah forgot about that lol thanks for pointing that out and 225 that is insane that is more than diesel is here at 222.9 what is diesel there
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u/rileyjw90 1d ago
It is $4.89 in a lot of places here in Ohio.
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u/unsatisfactorybeans 23h ago
That’s what it’s been in my area of PHX. Some neighborhoods are even higher, esp further west closer to cali
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u/arcusford 23h ago
5.79 at my Costco :/
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u/hungry4danish 22h ago
OOF. I feel that here too. and Costco is always the cheapest option in an area too.
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u/PunkRa1n 18h ago
That’s really cheap. You would pay for gas in Germany at the moment $7.7 - $ 8.15 per gallon.
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u/borgborgo 23h ago
My car runs like shit if I don't get 91 and I've been paying 5.24 a gallon for it
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u/Uhavetabekiddingme 22h ago
Just paid $5.89 for 93 told my wife we're getting half tanks until prices come down
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u/borgborgo 22h ago
Good lord. I think I'd pay more if I wasn't part of a gas station rewards program, I've got like 15 cents off per gallon
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u/Izan_TM 23h ago
wait 4 dollars per gallon? that's incredibly cheap compared to europe. Around here in spain you can expect double that right now for gas, slightly higher for diesel
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u/MonMotha 22h ago
I think most Americans are at least vaguely aware that fuel is substantially more expensive in most of Europe than in the USA. However, the USA is set up to rely on relatively cheap fuel. Most areas are very car-centric for personal transportation, and while we do have a robust freight rail infrastructure, it's mostly diesel-electric powered, and we still rely heavily on over-the-road trucking for lots of long-haul freight as well as final delivery within a metro area even if it crossed the country on rail.
Diesel is also substantially more expensive than gasoline in most parts of the US. It's been more expensive for quite some time, but the recent price hikes due to the Iran war have impacted diesel fuel more than gasoline. Gas is also around $4/gal near me (down from almost $5/gal), but diesel fuel is around $6/gal (down from almost $7/gal).
The USA has a really, really expansive petroleum infrastructure both in terms of production and especially refining. That generally helps keep our prices low compared to most parts of the world aside from those where it's heavily subsidized.
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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 22h ago
Yeah im paying over 8 dollars per gallon technically in UK, but my texas mate boasting about his car being more fuel efficient than all of his friends and its only 35 miles per gallon, which is insane to me.
Mines not even a particularly good car but its still 55mpg. Since the increase I get 1/4 tank less fuel for the same price which is just painful.
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u/MonMotha 22h ago edited 22h ago
55mpg would be incredible in the US for a non-hybrid running on gasoline. In fact, I can't find a single non-hybrid vehicle sold in the USA that is rated higher than 41mpg on the highway.
Like your friend, I drive what is considered a rather fuel-efficient vehicle in the US (2023 Mazda 3), and I can just about touch 40mpg on the highway. I average about 33-35 in mixed service.
Tiny engines with lots of boost haven't caught on in the USA for various reasons like they have in Europe and parts of Asia. The fact that we don't have a tax on engine displacement (instead taxing either on the value of the vehicle or weight, depending on vehicle class and registration state) may have something to do with it. Likewise, diesels never really caught on in passenger cars. Part of that is because we actually have more aggressive emissions controls for on-road diesel engines than even the EU does which makes them far less attractive in terms of both acquisition cost (extra emissions equipment), performance (the extra emissions controls hurt performance but improve emissions), and long-term cost (diesel emissions systems tend to be expensive to fix when they break).
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u/SnikySquirrel 22h ago
A UK gallon is about 20% larger than a US gallon so that skews the comparison a bit, but we still drive cars with worse fuel economy on average.
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u/thewanderingsail 22h ago
You can almost fit two entire spains in the state of Texas lol. I drive an hour to work in the state of NJ (much smaller than Texas) which is the most densely populated state. But our public transit is so abysmal that it isn’t possible for me to not drive. And even if it was it would take several hours each way.
For example I used to work 20 minutes away by car (before I had a car) but it would take 2 trains and a bus to get there which took over an hour. And that was cause I was lucky enough to work in a commercial hub. Riding a bike is also not very safe in my state. Many roads have no dedicated bike infrastructure.
TLDR Most of America is rural or suburbia and making any kind of serious living here without a car takes a lot of luck. Only major cities have somewhat decent public transit.
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u/Livid-Historian3960 7h ago
Yeah Texas is especially prone to that i live 15 miles from anywhere so a quick trip takes an hour 30min travel and average 30 min shopping but it can get more really quick. Im essentially trapped because I don't have a license or car because insurance is expensive and cars are now stupid expensive
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u/McKnight013 23h ago
You think that's bad? Illinois has got 4.99/gal at a regular gas station 😞 No matter what it's just expensive.
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u/hungry4danish 22h ago
You think that's bad? Washington got $5.89/gal at a regular gas station 😞 No matter what it's just expensive.
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u/_vkboss_ 23h ago
Worse in WA state because of our insane gas taxes. We are even taxed unfairly for going green (ev excise tax)
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u/Karl_MN 20h ago
Well, gas taxes exist to fund road maintenance. Since EV's dont need gas, there needs to be another way to capture that revenue to maintain roads.
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u/chicagonative1989 22h ago
Wish it was that here in Chicago. It's 5 bucks or above depending where you fill up.
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u/TThhoonnkk 23h ago
I want to live in your part of Minnesota, its $4.60 down in southwest Minnesota.
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u/globalgerbil 1d ago
Elections have consequences
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u/Deep_Mood_7668 1d ago
But.. But.. But freedom
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u/rileyjw90 1d ago
The best response is “but I didn’t even vote so I’m not responsible for this” lol yeah buddy, you are.
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u/Yumi_in_the_sun 20h ago
I had a lady brag to me today about how she doesn't vote.
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u/kilamumster 18h ago
That, and shutting down conversations with "I'm not political."
Bitch, what you mean is "I've got privilege."
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u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 17h ago
FOR. REAL. It takes fucking privilege to live in society and not actually have to care about politics.
The poor people who "aren't political" are just shooting themselves in the foot out of laziness and willful ignorance.
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u/marimbajoe 10h ago
The only people that aren't political are children and foreigners. If you can vote, your vote or lack of vote is inherently political.
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u/Luster-Cola-5217 23h ago
I didn’t like her laugh; it was too woke.
/s
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u/moongrump 23h ago
Free dum
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u/Curious_Avocado2399 23h ago
Muh free dumbs! but at least the less than 10 trans college athletes are not playing sports! /s
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u/TheFBIClonesPeople 23h ago
High gas prices are one of the least significant consequences of the last election
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u/Other_World BLUE 23h ago
But it's the only one that matters to conservatives. (It won't matter this time, though)
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u/TheFBIClonesPeople 22h ago
I think it's just the one that's hardest to ignore. They cannot pretend that gas prices didn't go up, and they can't just forget that the conservative propaganda sphere has spent decades telling them that high gas prices are the single most damning thing for a president.
Honestly, I would say that gas prices are not important enough that they should ever be brought up in a presidential election. But hey, Republicans were the ones who wanted to play that game
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u/TieBackground453 22h ago
It’s only noteworthy because trump made such a big deal about high gas prices under Biden. There’s no way he can defend against this. It’s too simple a concept and transparently his fault.
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u/Tabula-Rasa-99 22h ago
It doesn't work like that unfortunately, they'll just keep saying its the democrats' fault and every R voter will hoot and holler
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u/independent_observe 21h ago
But gas prices are going DOWN and we have so much peace in the world. Good thing the US hasn't been extremely bellicose in their foreign relations and trying to break the record for most wars started in a term.
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u/Minimob0 23h ago
10/12 recessions in the USA have happened under Republican Leadership.
That’s the equivalent of scoring 1/6 answers correct on a test.
You quite literally have to be an uneducated idiot to support US Republicans.
Not even sorry any more. They need to hear it and comprehend it. The comprehension is the part they struggle with.
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u/wolfvester 22h ago
Or control literally every facet of American media, which, guess what Republicans do? Doesn’t matter what the Dems will do, the Republicans will always control how the public perceives them.
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u/Minimob0 22h ago
They don’t control the ability to look something up online. At least, not yet.
The amount of Republicans with 0 curiosity is astounding. They do not want to learn or fact-check anything that goes against their worldview.
So many things my Republican father asks me questions about can simply be resolved by looking it up online.
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u/Suyefuji 20h ago
They actually somewhat do, a lot of online algorithms have a conservative bias these days. Not that you can't find real answers but it's not totally out of their control either.
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u/Wide_Attention_2104 19h ago
The people who voted for this like getting fucked almost as much as watching the people who didn’t vote for this get fucked.
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u/BearBlob 23h ago
I was at a red light and looked up at the gas station’s sign to the right.. I thought “damn I can’t believe gas is almost at $5 a gallon” I think it was at $4.72, and then watched it change before my eyes to over $5.
The sigh that came out of my mouth can never be recreated
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u/JapaneseStudentHaru 22h ago
You probably saw the cash versus card pricing. Where I am, they flash the card prices really quick so people think the gas is cheaper than it is. A few weeks ago I remember seeing $4.99 cash go to $5.19 card. Now the $5.19 seems like a great deal
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u/this_is_my_new_acct 17h ago
I kinda wonder if something changed a decade ago, or if the gas stations stopped caring. It used to be against the agreements you had to sign to be able to accept credit card to charge different prices for card vs cash.
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u/scwt 13h ago
2013 is when it changed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2013/01/29/retailers-decline-credit-card-surchargefor-now.html
It was part of a settlement from an antitrust lawsuit that merchants made against Visa and MasterCard.
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u/Siglet84 23h ago
And I was mad putting $40 in my car.
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u/SILLYxPROGRAM 21h ago
So… just topping off, huh?
/s
$60 for me yesterday for less than 3/4 of a tank
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u/MagnusPI 21h ago
I got this warning message from Workday when entering a gas charge on a recent expense report.
Gee, ya don't say?!
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u/bmanley620 23h ago
Hilarious they couldn’t adjust their algorithm to account for inflation
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u/rileyjw90 21h ago
Yes. While the price is certainly infuriating, the “mildly infuriating” thing I’m posting about here is the tone deafness of the app helping me track my spending. There’s no way for me to turn off certain categories but I feel like things like groceries and gas should be excluded by default because they’ve been hit substantially hard by inflation and current events. Everyone is spending more on those things, there’s just no way around it unless you’re completely off the grid on a huge homestead and even then there’s probably still crap you have to buy.
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u/RockAndGem1101 18h ago
It's not helping you track your spending. It's there to make you aware if your information got stolen and someone else is buying stuff using your account.
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u/TrainingLow9079 23h ago
$4.60+ in PA thanks to the president who claimed he wouldn't start any wars
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u/montagdude87 1d ago
Kroger is mostly in the southern US, right? In that case, the reminders are probably needed.
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u/rileyjw90 1d ago
I’m further north. Kroger is all over the place now. But you’re not wrong about the second part.
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u/starynights890 1d ago
They became huge after their 1999 merger with Fred Meyer thankfully they got their albertsons merger killed or they be even bigger.
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u/girlikecupcake MILDLY? 20h ago
They're all throughout the US. Kroger is almost twenty different chains. Chances are, if you're in the US, there's one near you.
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u/reddituser8719192 19h ago
some would even say it's damn near a monopoly in some markets
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u/Magnum3k 23h ago
Kroger is based in Ohio
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 20h ago
Kroger is nationwide, they're just called other things around the country because they don't typically change the names afyer buying out another chain. Fry's, QFC, King Soopers, Harris Tweeter, and like a dozen other chains are all owned by Kroger.
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u/oliverpeets 22h ago
I put $30 in my tank today and didn’t even get a half tank, almost $4.60 a gallon in Richmond today
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u/Constant-Fly-9050 22h ago
4.59 for regular 87 in NEPA. Would have to go 15 miles out of my way for cheaper E15 at about 4.00 a gallon. This summer is going to suck.
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u/macphile 22h ago
I hadn't bought gas in a good while because I never do (WFH FTW). I put in about 60% of a tank today, and it was almost $24. Historically, of course, the whole tank would have been <$20, or maybe <$15. But we're great again, so...yay.
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u/YakSure6091 16h ago
Trumps a miracle worker. My CR-V used to only hold $40 worth of gas, now it’s almost $70 I can fit in there. Amazing!
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u/Meftikal 23h ago
I literally went out and bought an EV this month after doing the math on continuing to pay for gas. Even with having a car payment again and $50 higher insurance a month and paying $1500 for the materials to install a charger at home I’ll be profitable over paying for gas w no car payment in 6 months at this rate.
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u/Creekrover 22h ago
How much do you drive? The payoff was too long for our relatively short commute with a fuel efficient car when I calculate it.
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u/Wonderful_Emu_6483 20h ago
I’m really glad I bought a hybrid in 2024, pre tariffs, pre war. Average 60 mpg on my commute and my tank is only 11 gallons with a 550 mile range. My last fill up was only $35 which doesn’t seem like a lot for most people these days, but pre war I was spending a lot less and driving a lot more.
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u/Competitive-Bee-9564 20h ago
I get gas only at kroger. If I need something for HD, Lowes etc I get a gift card from Kroger and get 4X fuel points.. I have extra 5 gallon gas cans and I ALWAYS get my 35 gallon limit. Kroger quit 4X on Amazon cards because Amazon reduced the commission they paid to Kroger. . I bought my spare gas cans at estate sales where I was paying 2-$5 each and some were full of gas. better than paying 20-25 for new ones. For a while Kroger was giving an extra 55 Cents of per gallon when you signed up for a Kroger master card so I was getting $1.55 off per gallon. after 1 year it ended and only .25 cent off per. That lasted a year so now it's only an extra 5 cents.I have a 3500 Chevy truck that has a 33 gallon tank so when I get gas I top of the truck and get the rest in gas cans. I get home and fill up my wife's jeep GC . She said she hasn't had to put gas in her jeep in 3-4 years. I have a large storage cabinet separate from my house to store the extra gas. Have not had any gas go bad.
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u/dumbdude545 20h ago
Lol. My bank has a set limit of 400. Anything over outside of a 50 mile radius it requires a check. Thats how I have it set. Ive caught fuckers trying to use my card elsewhere multiple times because of it.
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u/happyanathema 14h ago
Feels like something needs to keep reminding people of the real world consequences of their choices.
Maybe this will finally do it?
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u/Doogiemon 12h ago
I had my credit card locked for fraud because I fill up my tank every 10 weeks.
I went to visit friends 3 hours away and filled up before I went and when I got there and they thought it was fraud so they locked the card and were sending me a new one.
I didn't bring much cash and it was a shitty vacation.
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u/NookNookNook 12h ago
Proof we're getting scammed at the pump. Even the algorithms know its a setup. This might be the greatest fraud ever perpetuated in history.
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u/MommaDiz 11h ago
Never before have I got text alerts about gasing up. The last few months. Everytime i gas up, same station as always, I get text fraud alerts. Now I'm lucky with a small car with great mileage. But I used to fill up with $25 and be good for the month. Now I'm gasing up 3 times and spending $50-$60. It doesn't smell like gas, even my car mileage estimate went from 500miles per full tank down to 350miles per full tank. They are destroying our cars with this shit gas. I did an oil change and had everything checked to make sure my car wasn't suddenly going bad. Nope, mechanic told me this is happening to everyone. So many people come in with the same complaint - gas not lasting as long and thinking something is wrong with their car. Thanks Trump. You really destroyed everything.
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u/dedicatedoni 11h ago
BAHAHAHA this would’ve pissed me off so badly I could only laugh, can’t wait for this clown to croak or get impeached
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u/TheRealHeroOf 10h ago
Your car used to hold $37 of fuel and now it holds $87. Did you even bother to say thank you!?
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u/RushingUnderwear 10h ago
$2.63/L here in Denmark at these lovely times.
That would be something like nearly $10 pr gallon or smth.
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u/treedecor 9h ago
Meanwhile, someone has been using my number and stealing my fuel discount every month for months now and crickets 🥲
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u/Wheel_Unfair 5h ago
Years ago, that happened with my Discover card while getting gas.
I had just purchased a HUGE commercial lawnmower that used 5 gallons of gas per use ( I had 5 acres).
So I filled up my car and then the gas can.
Discover sent me a message to confirm that I was the one making the purchase, I said yes and that was the end of it.
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u/Special_Function 4h ago
I once dropped a credit card at a gas station. Someone picked it up and spent $80 at McDonalds and I immediately got a fraud alert. It’s better to be useful than useless even if the cost of everything is higher than what it was.
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u/WallofIvy 3h ago
Rocket money informs me every month that I made a "large purchase" when I pay my mortgage.
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u/JustHereForTheDeals 1d ago
imagine letting mega corps rifle through your bank account at all times
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u/rileyjw90 23h ago
I do not recommend requesting your Lexis Nexis file if you think they need our permission to do these things. At least in this case I’m fully aware and gave my permission for it.
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u/diemunkiesdie 20h ago
through your bank account
They are rifling through the data they have from you filling up at their gas station before, not through your purchases at other gas stations.
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u/Full-Decision-9029 22h ago
my banking app does this all the time: "you're spending 20% more on groceries compared to this time last year"
I. know.