Stop & Shop sells gas. Some customers get to use it. Some just pay.

If you buy groceries at the Stop & Shop in Hudson, MA ., you are also buying Stop & Shop gasoline, or more accurately; gasoline credits. Unlike an actual gasoline purchase, the credits expire. If you want to use the credits, you will have to drive to Grafton Street in Worcester some 20 miles away.
Redeeming gasoline credits will cost you a gallon of gasoline even if you are tooling around in a Prius. Before continuing with the mathematics, let's consider physics for a moment, shall we?

The Toyota Prius boasts a curb weight of 2432 lbs.

The Toyota Land Cruiser lists curb weight at 5699 lbs. and has an additional specification, towing option you know, GVWR 7275 lbs. Presumably, this means the Land Cruiser is rated to pull an additional ton or so.

For the sake of simplicity (and face facts; if you drive a Prius, physics was not your major) let us limit our discussion to curb weight. The Prius gets just under 50 mpg. The Land Cruiser get under 20 mpg. Two Prius on a scale would weigh less than one Land Cruiser. (This is a clue of physics to come...)

What happens if we take an object with a weight less than 2.5 pounds and crash it together with an object that weighs between 5.5 and 7.5 pounds? Too complicated? OK. Lets say a typical three-year-old collides with a typical-ten-year old. After the collision...which one is crying?

And which one is hungry?

Some things are just true.

One of those true things is that Stop & Shop is ripping you off. If a portion of what we pay for groceries is going to expiring gas credits we have to buy at a Stop & Shop 2 gallons of gas away...Stop & Shop is doing their best to knowingly make you pay more for less.

Is Hannafords? They are right across the street...