(GAITHERSBURG, MD) Feb. 11, 2015 - GasBuddy, the nation's top gas price app, congratulates the top 25 lowest priced retail gasoline offerings, which together saved consumers millions of dollars on their yearly gasoline fill-ups in 2014.
Each year, GasBuddy combs through nearly 35 million individual gasoline prices and compares each brand's pump offering (by zip code) to the average price of local competitors. It then tabulates the results, rating each brand by the average discount it delivered versus the average pump prices in its competitive area.
"We applaud these chains that clearly do their best to keep gas prices low for consumers," said GasBuddy founder, Jason Toews. "Our goal at GasBuddy is to help consumers save money when buying fuel, and identifying the consistently cheapest sites is a key step."
For the third year in a row, Costco was the undisputed leader in value pricing. On any given day in 2014, the average Costco was priced more than 16cts/gal lower than its competitors. That 2014 discount was nearly 16 percent more aggressive than the 14.06cts/gal Costco delivered in savings versus competitors in 2013.
Western multistate marketer ARCO came in second, with an average daily station discount versus competitors of 14.55cts/gal, some 7.7 percent more aggressive than the price differential in 2013. ARCO was the only traditional gasoline retailer to make it to GasBuddy's Top 25 list this year. Five of the chains that made the Top 25 ranking were primarily supermarkets or supercenters, including Fred Meyer, which yielded a discount of more than 11cts/gal. Other grocers in the group included Smiths, which typically sold at 5.8cts/gal under competitors, followed by Stop & Shop, Kroger, King Soopers, and Fry's, all with average discounts in 2014 of more than 4cts/gal.
The other two Big Box clubs, Sam's and BJ's, were ranked 5th and 6th in the GasBuddy tally, with respective discounts that were 10.79cts/gal and 10.19cts/gal below local rivals. Northern California based Quick Stop was the most aggressive traditional convenience store, taking the number three slot among marketers that had the 30 sites necessary to qualify for the ranking. Quick Stop priced its stations at 13.7cts/gal below competitors.
Nearly 50 million consumers have downloaded the free GasBuddy App, which allows motorists to find the cheapest gas stations in any area of the U.S. or Canada by simply pushing a button. To see a complete list of the 100 most aggressive fuel chains in the USA and the Top 30 for each region, click the links below:
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