How ubiquitous is it for gas stations to charge a price per gallon/litre ending in nine tenths of a cent.

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Omnipresent throughout the states.

@asmonet:
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Almost 100% here in Canada.

I’ve never seen a gas station that doesn’t do that. And I look.

I think it has something to do with the federal imposed prices and supply controls. Gas stations don’t have the autonomy to set their own prices and therefore the mandated government formulas result in the ridiculous 9/10 of a cent pricing.

It totally pisses me off, too…is there any other product that could get away with that crap? 9/10ths of a cent, pssssh.

I think it’s just marketing. $1.999 doesn’t look like two bucks, because it has that nice skinny “one” at the front there. Yet, that .009 adds up, ya know?

Maybe to satisfy all the people who insist that 1.(999) =/= 2?
Though I’d concede that for all real world purposes 1.(9)=2.