[visordown.com] - Tesco petrol station Only two fuel pumps for motorcyclists

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The Tesco Esso petrol station on north London's Camden Road. Picture: Google Street View


A TESCO Esso petrol station is refusing to serve motorcyclists at six of its eight fuel pumps, saying too many of them leave without paying.

Motorcyclists must fill up at the two pumps closest to the checkout so that they can be stopped by a security guard if they attempt to leave, according to staff.

If a rider stops to fill up at any other pump, staff will not activate it.

The policy means motorcyclists must queue at the busy forecourt for the two specified pumps even when others are free.

A team leader at the petrol station, on north London’s Camden Road, said the policy had been introduced because too many riders of both scooters and motorcycles ‘just fill and walk away’.

He said all the pumps were covered by CCTV but the two open to riders were also ‘near to the checkout so we can keep an eye on them’.

‘We can ask the security guard to stop them,’ he said.

He added: ‘The other ones at the back are by the road, so they just kick the motorbike and go.

‘So we have enough time to stop them, that’s why we ask them to come to theses pumps.’

He said it was a local policy which Tesco head office gave the branch the authority to make.

‘The store manager has the authority to make the local rules,’ he said.

Visordown has asked Tesco for a comment.

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