Commerce Commission<\/a> has talked about it from time to time, about how when we do see lower prices, we see them in areas with the most competition.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2018A lot of discounting going on\u2019<\/p>\n
The day First Up visited Mangawhai, the average price of petrol across the country was $2.55.9 per litre. Mangawhai\u2019s Gull had the third lowest price at $2.33.9 per litre \u2013 only bettered by the Allied pump at Opua Marina and Westgate\u2019s Costco.<\/p>\n
Newton said the months of lower prices at the Gull forced Mangawhai\u2019s other stations to compete, but the lower prices were not usually as sustained as they have been since September.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf those other stations don\u2019t compete, they won\u2019t get any business. When the price is that much lower, if they\u2019re sitting across the road and their price is 20 cents higher, why would anyone go there?\u201d<\/p>\n
Collins said they saw fluctuations in prices depending on demand during an average week.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019re tending to see lately is a lot of discounting going on, people chasing on particular days, Tuesdays and Thursdays kind of thing, before the weekend and after the weekend where the demand is slacking and because they want volume they\u2019ll make these discount offers to drive sales.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Mangawhai Gull station\u2019s other products, Newton said they were not as much of a bargain. \u201cIt\u2019s really only the 91 price that is the significant outlier, diesel and 95 are pretty much tracking the national average, there\u2019s really not much to be saved there\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the price of petrol nationwide has been pretty steady. \u201cWe haven\u2019t seen any of the huge shifts we saw like when Russia headed into Ukraine, those sort of global [events] which see massive price changes, it\u2019s really been steady as she goes.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Mangawhai\u2019s low prices, Collins said it was all good. \u201cI\u2019m not sure if they\u2019re doing it in this case to encourage tourism, I think basically it has been ignited by the arrival of Gull and the competition it brings, but no, long may we enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The director of Gaspy, Mike Newton, says the town is a bit of an outlier since the Gull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35435,138,1550,10749,67252,17576,111,139,1067,69,1118,151757,22126,12937,44263,2951],"class_list":["post-266299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-becomes","tag-business","tag-centre","tag-impressive","tag-jeremy","tag-low","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-parkinson","tag-petrol","tag-prices","tag-tiny","tag-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}