I've been doing gas stations for 4 years, for several different MSCs. I have NEVER seen a report that asked what the posted price was for a gallon, or even what I paid per gallon. Yes, I upload the receipt, yes, there's a photo of the MID. But there are so many grades, so many different prices on the pumps, that if there's a discrepancy between what I paid and what's posted, I figured the company would just assume that I did NOT purchase the lowest-priced gas, which is usually what's posted on the MID. Around here, there's usually only two prices on the MID -- the "lowest" priced gas, and diesel. At some stations, that "lowest priced" offering is available at only one pump -- you have to literally walk around and look at each and every pump to find the ONE nozzle that offers the cheapest gas.
I was just really ticked off yesterday. I pulled into a station that advertised $2.22. I pulled up to the pump, the cheapest price was $2.39. I walked around and looked at each and every pump. Nothing cheaper than $2.39.
I walked inside and asked, and the guy just casually said, oh, yeah, we gotta change the sign. I was 90 miles from home, and out of gas, so I was stuck. I told the cashier he might consider telling his boss that a customer told him it was illegal.
I was NOT shopping that gas station!
But it made me think on it, and I checked my records, and in the last 6 gas stations shops I completed, not one of them did the posted MID price match what I paid at the pump. Not one! The smallest difference was just 2 cents a gallon, the largest was 12 cents a gallon. The station yesterday was 17 cents a gallon wrong!
Maybe I'm just a curmudgeonly crotchety old Scrooge!