How do
petrol pumps
make money?
After all of the hullabaloo surrounding the increase in margins, how does the petrol pump business model even work?
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By Ariba Shahid f you’ve been to a petrol pump in Pakistan chances are that you’ve seen a lad working at the pump holding a large wad of cash. As a kid you probably thought that the guy is rich, as an adult you come to realize, the guy probably earns the equivalent of 5 litres of fuel (at current prices) in a day – basically peanuts. But this story isn’t about unfair wages, it has more to do with how fuel pumps earn money.
