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Faulty Pump Fuels Petrol Station Sale Bonanza
Tesco has long embraced the phrase "every little helps", but it seems one of its petrol stations accidentally took price cuts a little too far.
The Cambridgeshire branch was swamped with motorists after a faulty pump mistakenly dispensed fuel for 40p a litre for nearly a week.
Queues of traffic built up around the forecourt in Milton as word spread of the bargain price.
Customers with a 50-litre tank were filling up at a saving of almost £35.
They were pumping in £54 worth of 107p-a-litre petrol for only £20.
Staff only learned of the error after a customer blabbed about the pump bonanza on a local radio station.
An engineer fixed the problem on Friday morning - six days after it was first noticed by customers.
"This was a technical fault at the pump and an engineer has now rectified the problem," a Tesco spokesman said.
"Although we always aim to keep prices down at the pumps, unfortunately, we could not maintain this price indefinitely."
:Faulty Pump Fuels Petrol Station Sale Bonanza
Tesco has long embraced the phrase "every little helps", but it seems one of its petrol stations accidentally took price cuts a little too far.
The Cambridgeshire branch was swamped with motorists after a faulty pump mistakenly dispensed fuel for 40p a litre for nearly a week.
Queues of traffic built up around the forecourt in Milton as word spread of the bargain price.
Customers with a 50-litre tank were filling up at a saving of almost £35.
They were pumping in £54 worth of 107p-a-litre petrol for only £20.
Staff only learned of the error after a customer blabbed about the pump bonanza on a local radio station.
An engineer fixed the problem on Friday morning - six days after it was first noticed by customers.
"This was a technical fault at the pump and an engineer has now rectified the problem," a Tesco spokesman said.
"Although we always aim to keep prices down at the pumps, unfortunately, we could not maintain this price indefinitely."
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