I looked on gasbuddy.com for a station close to me. Other stations showed up with low prices but I already knew from experience when I went to them you only got the lower price if you have their card or are member, etc. Since I live out of town I don't have that advantage. I decided to try the Pay Less station which was right across the road from my motel. I walked up to the window first and asked the young man if there was anything I needed to know about the station before I pump the gas, like whether the price was the same for cash or credit, whether I needed a special card or whatever. He said, Let me come out and show you, and walked over to the pump with me. He asked me if I had a Kroger card. I told him no because I lived out of town. He asked if I had a few other cards and when he said Fry's I remembered that I had shopped at the Fry's in Arizona frequently and that they were affiliated with one of the stores in San Diego, Ralph's I think. We tried my cell phone number and bingo it worked. I didn't just get the $1.95/gallon gas price that GasBuddy he had indicated, I got $0.03 off of that because of my phone number being on file so I paid $1.92 a gallon.
Kudos to the young man who was so helpful to me. I told him this will be my gas station from now on when I'm in Anderson. Close. Easy. Cheap. And a great employee who helped me out. I should have gotten his name. 9/26/16 read more