Fuel vouchers and discount schemes 'working against consumers'DAVID UNWIN/FAIRFAX NZ Petrol companies offer discount and loyalty schemes because they increase profits, report suggests. Fuel vouchers and loyalty schemes may be helping turbo drive petrol companies' profit margins and working against the interests of consumers, a government report says. Petrol companies had been increasing their use of discount and loyalty schemes, they said. An aggravating factor was that some discount schemes could involve "the poor subsidising the wealthy", he said. "In some of those schemes the discount is not all funded by the fuel companies," he said.

Source: Stuff July 04, 2017 03:55 UTC