What a week

Well, my hopes for this blog were to chronicle a day to day existance.. This past week has been a whirlwind to say the least so here's a recap...

Last week a customer who was also a photographer for the local paper here took a picture of a sign we have on our gas pumps where we explain that we no longer accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, ect for gas purchases. Because of the fees imposed and the pennies on the gallon profit margins we could not make any money on a sale and in a lot of cases would lose money to the tune of 1-2 dollars per transaction. Can't very well justify selling with cash flow like that ya know... Well....
On the 16th, Monday morning an article appeared in that newspapers website.. top story and then the Associated Press print, Associated Press Radio, The WV State Journal, CNN, and everybody was calling wanting interviews. The 3 local TV stations all came down and it was an interesting day.
Well.. the TV news ran the story for 2 days as the AP Radio put it out all over the nation. In yesterday's morning paper here I find that the AP print article was published... FRONT PAGE witha pic of me on the continuation page.
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I receieved 5 phone calls from all over the country from retailers asking how we did it, how it's working out and for the most part supporting our move and wishing the best.

I don't think the ride is over yet though....