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Why are NJ Gas Stations Excluded in Ads?
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Upside is a major national advertiser. It is the largest advertiser on radio in certain weeks. If they want to reach New Yorkers, you definitely don't say no.
This advertiser has probably been running on most NYC stations for 5 years. I don't think the app have ever operated in New Jersey, probably because of the state's rules requiring full service gasoline.
This advertiser has probably been running on most NYC stations for 5 years. I don't think the app have ever operated in New Jersey, probably because of the state's rules requiring full service gasoline.
Noo Joizey STILL doesn't allow full service gas?
The last time I filled up in NJ was 1987. I thought they eliminated full service soon thereafter. They and Oregon were the last holdouts, and I thought Oregon finally dumped it years ago (Illinois finally got rid of it around 1980, and I believe they were the last to do so other than NJ and OR). The Amalgamated Associated of Joizey Gas Pumpers, Local 6-7/8, is still that strong?
You want full service gas, eat at a crappy restaurant. There are plenty in NJ.
Even Oregon allows self-service gas (for less than half the pumps) last I checked. There has to be one pump jockey available at all times for the other 51% of the pumps.
NJ does not allow any self-service pumping…which would explain the inability to use one’s app (I’d assume its Upside) to pay for gas.
As a kid that grew up in MD/VA in the 80’s, I think self-service has just recently been legalized in both states by then, but the vast majority of stations were still 100% full-service up until about the late 80’s-early 90’s. We’d skip NJ entirely when filling up on gas. Even back then it was $0.20/gal cheaper in neighboring states.
Delaware back then was the 30 mile stretch to get speeding tickets on the way to family up north as well as cheap gas…don’t know if it’s still that way now.
NJ does not allow any self-service pumping…which would explain the inability to use one’s app (I’d assume its Upside) to pay for gas.
As a kid that grew up in MD/VA in the 80’s, I think self-service has just recently been legalized in both states by then, but the vast majority of stations were still 100% full-service up until about the late 80’s-early 90’s. We’d skip NJ entirely when filling up on gas. Even back then it was $0.20/gal cheaper in neighboring states.
Delaware back then was the 30 mile stretch to get speeding tickets on the way to family up north as well as cheap gas…don’t know if it’s still that way now.
Upside runs frequent ads on NJ radio stations... with a quick disclaimer at the end that their service is not available in NJ.
Same thing with O'Reilly Auto Parts, which runs ads all the time on NJ and NYC stations, despite not having any stores at all in NJ, and the closest stores in NY being in Orange County (what NYC'ers would call "upstate").
Same thing with O'Reilly Auto Parts, which runs ads all the time on NJ and NYC stations, despite not having any stores at all in NJ, and the closest stores in NY being in Orange County (what NYC'ers would call "upstate").
In 1977 while driving "cross country" around Somerset Kentucky, I kept on seeing signs for UFO. When I stopped to eat I asked the lady behind the cash register where was the flying saucer? She smiled and said "you aren't from around here" then told me that it was an "Unattended Fuel Outlet". I finally drove past it and there was just 2 pumps. Nothing else. No bathroom, no Coke or candy machines. I have no idea how you paid. I guess the concept never caught on.
Absolutely no one in Jersey, the citizens of which know full well about how gas stations work in their little slice of the country, would be alienated by a commercial that happens to tout a service available elsewhere.
What about her?
In my early career, I worked out of Manhattan, lived in Queens, and often commuted to a company plant just over the bridge in Jersey. This was the '70s. Everyone knew you filled up on the Jersey side of the river if you wanted to save a few bucks. NYC and LI were always more expensive than the Jersey stations, even the ones just before the bridge toll plazas.
Think of a "UFO" like belonging to a gasoline club. You (or more likely your employer) sign up for a membership, you get a membership card that functions like a credit card. You use the card to gain access to the unattended facility, then again at the particular pump you want to fill up at. The gas is dispensed, the card is charged (or possibly your own credit card is linked to the account and automagically gets the charge), and you drive off. It's similar to being a Costco member and gassing up at their pumps, except for the gated/locked facility. You can't buy gas at The Big C if you don't have their membership card plus either a VISA card or a debit card.
No, the denizens of Noo Joyzee are hale and hearty, and they get offended by many things but that sure ain't one.
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Like suggesting there’s such a place as Central Jersey? 😂😅🤣
It's based on county. The rural counties, attendant-free fuel has been a thing for a few years.
What you're referring to is what the law requires for those 'urban' areas of the state.
Why? Why not?
It's called cash. If it's not available in New Jersey, it's not available in New Jersey. I know this ad, it's a national ad. May also be bartered.
Does remind of CKLW in the 60s and 70s. U.S. beer ads were tagged "Not available in Ontario"
IIRC back then there weren't many magnetic strips on the credit cards. When you used a credit card the clerk would take your card and put it in a slide device and put a 3 or 4 copy slip and make an imprint of the card and she / he would write in the amount of the sale. There were a few bank ATMs around whose technology I guess they were using.
BTW the one I saw had no lighting
and driving by at dusk was kind of spooky.
Where I've seen them -- and I was in discussions once upon a time to come to work for a regional gasoline distributor that ran a number of these locked facilities -- they were completely fenced in, and they weren't open to just any soccer mom in her minivan or armored SUV, trying to hermetically seal the kiddies off from the real world. They really were for fueling up fleets of company vehicles. If you worked for a city or county, or the water company, or for Comcast or DirecTV (just picking those names for illustration), your fleet car or truck eventually needed to get fueled up, so rather than going to the nearest name-brand gas station, you used your GasCo card to gain access to GasCo's facility, filled up, then left, and the billing happened seamlessly behind the scenes. No need to pay cash or use your own company credit card (and then file an expense report and wait for reimbursement), or for the company to issue a CC to every person who was out in a fleet car. And as for the "no lighting" comment, I've seen where the lights were tied into the gate access system, so they came on at full blast when you were admitted into the facility, then turn off after you'd exited.
Do the gas stations in New Jersey not tell you how much the gas prices are? Seems like Upside should be able to do that, whether it’s self-service or not.
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