{"id":2543,"date":"2011-02-16T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2011-02-15T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T12:12:37","slug":"motorway-service-mark-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2011\/02\/motorway-service-mark-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorway Service Mark-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/motorway.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2544\" title=\"motorway\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/motorway.jpg\" alt=\"Motorway Service Station\" width=\"217\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bottle of water in Britain\u2019s motorway services, can cost more than at Harvey Nichols\u203c<\/p>\n<p>Petrol can cost you more than \u00a377 more per year for petrol.<\/p>\n<p>Research by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatcar.com\/\">What Car<\/a>, found that motorway services are among the most expensive places to shop in the UK. One WH Smith outlet charged a 91% mark up over its high street shops on a 750ml bottle of water. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whsmith.co.uk\/\">WH Smith<\/a> certainly wasn\u2019t the only offender, M &amp; S charges inflated prices in motorway shops as well. They increased a bottle of water by 25% and a sandwich by 16%. Burger King also charges 12% more for their food.<\/p>\n<p>Food isn\u2019t the only commodities that have increased prices, FUEL is also more expensive. Drivers tend to pay an average of 5.2% more for unleaded petrol and 3.4% more for diesel.<\/p>\n<p>So before you attempt a journey on the Motorway, make sure you have enough fuel and bring a pack lunch!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Lunch-Box-Fuel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2545\" title=\"Lunch Box &amp; Fuel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Lunch-Box-Fuel-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"Lunch Box &amp; Fuel\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bottle of water in Britain\u2019s motorway services, can cost more than at Harvey Nichols\u203c Petrol can cost you more than \u00a377 more per year for petrol. Research by What Car, found that motorway services are among the most expensive places to shop in the UK. One WH Smith outlet charged a 91% mark up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}