interesting oil pricing at WalMart

[Robert K]

I was in the oil aisle today at our local WalMart and noticed a devious little pricing practice they employ. They had oil in both quart and 5 quart plastic jugs. The 5 quart jug for Penzoil was $10.97. The price for a single quart of Penzoil was $1.88. If you were to buy 5 single quarts, your price would be $9.40, saving you $1.57 over the 5 quart jug. I guess you really do pay for convenience.

Grace and peace,

Robert K
1991 535i

[winfred]

been like that for a while, so much for bulk savings

[vuyodaddy]

I was in the oil aisle today at our local WalMart and noticed a devious little pricing practice they employ. They had oil in both quart and 5 quart plastic jugs. The 5 quart jug for Penzoil was $10.97. The price for a single quart of Penzoil was $1.88. If you were to buy 5 single quarts, your price would be $9.40, saving you $1.57 over the 5 quart jug. I guess you really do pay for convenience.

Grace and peace,

Robert K
1991 535i

I just bought some Mobil1 synthetic from them recently! Aww maaan... I hope that wasn't the case for me...

BTW (sorry if hacking)... does anyone know why they would have one synthetic selling for ~22 and another for ~27? Whats the difference? Both were 10W30, and synthetic, and all that junk... only difference was the picture on the bottle, same color scheme though.

[Ross]

One might be the "high mileage" variant. I just made this mistake myself.

[winfred]

marketing ******** just buy the regular mobil 1 that says full synthetic, they claim 15k mile changes on the expensive stuff but that's absurd to let your oil go that long without a supplemental filtration system (like a bypass filter), the factory filter is about done around 6k if your motor runs fairly clean maybe a little longer, some **** all over themselves and the filter is toast at 3-4k


I just bought some Mobil1 synthetic from them recently! Aww maaan... I hope that wasn't the case for me...

BTW (sorry if hacking)... does anyone know why they would have one synthetic selling for ~22 and another for ~27? Whats the difference? Both were 10W30, and synthetic, and all that junk... only difference was the picture on the bottle, same color scheme though.

[attack eagle]

sometimes the bulk is less.

Castrol was less as a 5qt than in singles.

[bigtisas]

I didn't pay attention to this. Just bought the 5 qtr jug last weekend.