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A few days ago, Costco's first gas station in Chinese mainland opened in Nanjing, and the supporting membership store is expected to open on May 28.
It is worth noting that the price of gasoline currently offered by Costco gas stations is significantly lower than the market price.
Costco gas station No. 92 gasoline is 7.49 yuan/liter, No. 95 gasoline is 7.95 yuan/liter, and No. 98 gasoline is 8.99 yuan/liter. According to public information, the 92 gasoline in Jiangsu Province is 8.16 yuan/liter, the 95 gasoline is 8.68 yuan/liter, and the 98 gasoline is 10.48 yuan/liter, that is, the Costco gas station is 0.67 yuan ~ 1.49 yuan lower than the market price per liter, and the discount range is about 8.5 to 9 percent. This means that car owners can save 30 yuan by filling up a tank of fuel.
According to the gas station staff, this is a gas station opened by Costco itself, which can accommodate 24 vehicles at the same time to enter the station for refueling, and also supports self-service refueling.
It is reported that the oil added by the Costco gas station comes from Sinochem Petroleum, and the second phase of the gas station has also completed the completion of the record, so can the above preferential prices be sustained?
The staff said that in principle, they will always maintain the preferential oil price for members, unless the relevant department clearly states that the preferential price cannot be maintained, and of course, it is not ruled out that the oil price will fluctuate within a normal range.
"Although restrictions are relaxed, the cost advantage of foreign-funded gas stations in China is not large." A former oil and gas analyst explained.
The global gas station market has exceeded $2 trillion
The global gas station market is currently at a critical stage of transformation due to the volatility of oil and gas prices and the growing popularity of battery-powered vehicles. According to BCC Research, the global gas station market size has exceeded $2 trillion in 2017 and will reach around $3 trillion in 2022, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 5.0% from 2017 to 2022.
There are many multinational gas station companies in the world
From the perspective of gas station brands in the world's representative countries, large multinational oil companies are widely distributed, including BP, Shell, etc. In the United States and the United Kingdom, there are many gas station brands under large supermarket chains, such as TSCO, Costco, etc., but in China's gas station industry, state-owned oil companies occupy the main market, and the representative enterprises are PetroChina, Sinopec, etc.
Combined with the development status of the global gas station industry, the global gas station industry mainly includes four major development trends: large-scale + rationalization of network layout, service integration + brand diversification, equipment automation + self-service and healthier, safer and more environmentally friendly. Among them, equipment automation + service self-service is the inevitable result of technological progress. The improvement of customers' pursuit of convenience and speed and the unremitting pursuit of high efficiency and low cost by enterprises have further promoted the realization of intelligent gas stations.
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