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...penny or two, owners are slow to raise prices to cover their increased costs--and at times even lose money when a customer charges a fill-up. "We get hurt when the price goes up--the opposite of what the customer thinks," says Stewart Spinks, who runs 38 Spinx stores in the Carolinas and Georgia. With gas at $3 per gal., Spinks hands credit-card companies about 7¢ per gal.--half of what he makes before paying employees and spending on equipment. So he has joined station owners in Tennessee, Minnesota, New York and elsewhere in trying to avoid credit...
...hard-boiled and whimsical. He was brutal and tender, so I was told. From shop girl to 'sassiety queen,' they all seemed to develop certain tendencies in his presence. What may have resulted, deponent sayeth not. About some things 'Gene was Spinx-like. All I can report are the phenomena." --Weaver
...Overture, "Spinx," Thompson...
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