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		tedunangst on May 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competi... Right turn vs left turn. Brand loyalty; that one time your uncle went to the other place and then two days later needed an engine rebuild, lalala.

dkarl on May 28, 2019 [–]

Cleaner restrooms, better cover from sun/rain at the pumps, more likely to have a bottle of sunscreen that hasn't been on the shelf for three years, more likely to have the kind of chips the kids have been screaming about for the last fifty miles.

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