> My statement has to be based on the one thing which can be consistently verified. I don't know how common these are elsewhere, but we do have several service stations with both full service and self service, depending on which bank of pumps you select. The banks are clearly labelled. In my experience, the majority of service stations which offer both have the same price for both. I can think of one notable exception, a service station located at the corner of two major access routes to the downtown core.

We have a quite a few of those self serve/full serve stations here in Edmonton too. In fact, I think that we have WAY more of those then full serve only stations. However, unlike the stations in Calgary (it seems), every single one of them charges a different price for the self serve then the full serve. It tends to be around half a cent more per litre, but I'm not certain about that. Still, I can't think of any exception to the differing prices on mixed stations that I've seen in Edmonton. Of course, with those stations I find that the self-serve pumps are MUCH farther away from the main building then the full serve ones, even though the full serve ones have their own little booths.

Now, it would also seem that the prices around Edmonton are fairly constent from one side to the other. When I go to Karate class, we pass by some gas stations that are on the other side of town from where we live (the club is close to where we USED to live). It may differ by about a cent, but really not all that much. One exception is a gas station that we pass by on the way to the Edmonton International Airport. That one just seems to have WEIRD prices. It's frequently either 5 cents more or 5 cents less then anywhere else in Edmonton and I have no idea why.

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