Publix offering discount on BP Gas Card

OR, they set up these promos and print fliers months/weeks ahead of time.

Definitely bad timing.

Maybe BP is trying to offer incentives to keep people from boycotting BP. 20% discount on gas is pretty good, considering that the difference in two cents per gallon on competing gas stations' signs, sways people one way or the other.

So Not Cool Publix

What are they partners with BP? Not a cool move Publix. You don't need to lose customers do you? keep it up and I will shop elsewhere.:angry:

I don't know the details of the promo, but I do know that our local Publix is helping collect items for Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge saturday.

Don't jump to condemn them for a promo that may predate the spill.

Publix has run this promotion several times. It has nothing to do with the spill. Are you getting your gasoline at Tom Thumb at the Citgo tank?

What are they partners with BP? Not a cool move Publix. You don't need to lose customers do you? keep it up and I will shop elsewhere.:angry:

Boycotting local large chain stores actually only hurts the locals that work there.

Publix the corporation, if you research them, is as dirty at times as BP, Wal-Mart and even Disney. Every huge company has skeletons in their closet.

By boycotting the local store you will have no affect on the corporation, but will hurt the hard working locals who have no say in corporate policy, such as gas coupons.

Publix has run this promotion several times. It has nothing to do with the spill.

That's right. I have a card in my wallet. Purchased weeks ago. I told moondoogie I'll have to use the rest of it soon before they go bankrupt.

While waiting in check out line the other week in Publix, I happened to notice two guys looking at stuff on a display near the check out. The entire display appeared to be gift cards for nearly every national chain and major company. They have every gift card from Best Buy to TGI Friday's. It wouldn't be surprising that they have gas company cards too.

I hear people talking about boycotting BP and laugh a little inside at the idea of really being able to do that. Even if you don't fill YOUR tank at BP, you are still supporting BP when you buy produce at a grocery store, which gets their deliveries made by a truck which uses BP gas, and from the farmer who may buy their diesel fuel for their tractors from BP. If it isn't coming from BP, it may come from another oil company who buys wholesale from BP.

What are the reasonable alternatives? Exxon? Citgo? Chevron? If you really want to boycott BP, it might be best done by living a self-sustaining life in the woods.