rumor has it that Ron wrote: > I called around town the other day to check on fuel prices. Every > station I talked to said, "Sorry, we cannot give out prices over the > phone." I asked a couple of them why not, and they didn't know--just > said it was the rule. Don't know if this is universal or just a recent > development locally.
Along about 20 years ago, the station I work at would often get calls from the competition asking for prices on fuel, soda, etc. Store policy was to never quote prices over the 'phone. Philip, who's glad that job didn't last very long.