Gas & Shop

I bought gas late one night and the very next day had fraudulent charges on my credit card from some store in Fremont.

I have no idea what it’s like to get gas here, but I have gone inside. The bathrooms are shitty, buuuuut their biscuits and fried chicken are the best. Literally. At least so far.
The first time I had the biscuits they were soooo buttery with a taste of honey on the outside and oh gosh I felt my arteries getting clogged immediately, but it was worth the possibility of a heart attack. This time they weren’t quite so buttery, but still amazing.
I didn’t buy anything else in the store, but the cleanliness of the store isn’t really so great.

I come to this gas station to buy some groceries during my work hours because it is the only grocery store near my job. I hate it! It’s super low quality! Plus, a lot of crazy and strange characters roaming the streets of this somehow unsafe neighborhood come here to buy alcohol, which it all contributes to the bad customer service, I believe. I don’t understand why this crucial neighborhood in San Francisco doesn’t get developed – why the city supervisors want to keep it funky and primitive.

This place is the worst. I live near here and walk past it daily. The gas may be cheap, but the ‘characters’ who hang around the station at all hours can be menacing. Just last night (29 AUG 2014) a guy was either murdered or seriously assaulted on the property. Pan handling is ongoing as well around the station and when you buy gas. The money gained is then spent inside the station on cheap alcohol to fuel the passed out or rowdy chronic inebriates that lay on the sidewalks all around. That station should not be allowed to sell booze. And those chicken bones strewn on the sidewalks within a block come from their ‘fryer’. Avoid this place; it’s just not safe and it’s not an asset for the neighborhood.

This place is Gas Station Hell. They add $.50 to your charge illegally. Took 3 trips inside to get my gas. Bad all the way around.

DO NOT GO HERE! They will literally rob you of your money. I went in there handed in 18 dollars for gas (all the cash I had at the time). Went back outside to pump my gas and noticed it only stopped at 16 dollars… Went back inside and said I gave you 18 dollars for gas but the clerk said I only gave 16. Then she insisted that she checked twice. I checked 3 times before I gave you my money! I checked because I saw bad reviews for this gas station already.
So do not go here for gas! They literally robbed me of 2 dollars!!! I would give negative stars review if I could…

I like this place. I often stop by on my way home from the gym because the gas is cheaper here than elsewhere in the city. I stopped in this morning to get some juice and thought the service was friendly. In general you get what you pay for. Sure the pumps are kinda funky and can take a few minutes to start pumping but I’m not exactly here for five star service. Also I make a point to only go during daylight hours because the area can be dicey. Going to stop by sometime and try the fried chicken. It looked tasty but not 9am tasty this morning.

Wow. New management? Stopped by this week, everything worked, nobody spare changed me or propositioned me… I ventured inside which used to be utterly foolhardy, and everyone was NICE!!!

Surprisingly good fried chicken.

«Gas-​n-​Shop, how mey help you.»
«Do you have video cameras in your location?»
«uh…yes. who this?»
«Someone stole my credit card and used it at your location.»
«Oh. I dunno…»
«Yea, I know you don’t know but someone stole my credit card and used it at your location. Is there a way you can look at your ‘security camera’ tape to see?
„Oh…I dunno. who this?“
:smh:
„Would you be able to check your security camera’s tape to see if there was someone using my card at a certain time?“
„Oh.maybe.you call back tomorrow. When manager here.“
„When?“
“Tomorrow…»
“Yes, I KNOW tomorrow, WHEN tomorrow?”
«8am…tomorrow.»
“8am. right. ok.“
i know when i try and call back tomorrow i’m going to get the same BS…
the reviews are right. this place and its employees are useless.

A horrible community neighbor that happily profits by selling booze to chronic inebriates who often consume their booze onsite. This place drags an entire neighborhood down and fuels the worst elements of the community. A neighborhood disgrace.

More like Gas & Shot – not the good, liquid belly-​warming kind, either.
As a road cyclist and an aficionado of drinking in hot tubs and by poolsides, I’ve been known to take a risk or two. So risking health and safety for cheap gas? Sure.
That is, until I went to Gas & Shop.
The pump was having issues (which, after reading the rest of these reviews, is more of a given than not) when I tried to pay there, so I was forced to go inside.
As my friend and I were in a hurry to get to dinner, I just wanted to get my gas and get out. But alas, I was cut in line by 2 people (cut as in barged in front, not draw blood with a sharp object… though sad that I have to clarify).
The first of the characters was a woman who was high on something, and it wasn’t life. I’m not really experienced in these matters so I’d venture to guess either crack or meth, but great Zeus’ beard… she was all over the place screaming and ranting… holding a gas station hot dog and a pop… something about starving… just, yikes.
When the second guy cut me and 2 others standing behind me, the gal at the counter, in two languages, told him that the line was where we were. He just said no, I’m buying this, and flat out refused to move. Wow. A-​hole. Defeated, she eventually just let him pay for his items before the rest of us, but really?
After filling my tank (I just clicked auto-​pump and sat inside the car with my friend and all the doors locked — IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY), as I was getting out to leave, a guy asked me for change, or if he could wash my windshield, etc. I said no, silently praying that he wouldn’t hit me with a blunt object.
So I ask myself… how much ghetto is worth dealing with in order to get cheap gas? I thought my bar was set pretty low, but this place proved me wrong… and made me feel like any of the shady «patrons» would pick up the bar and hit me with it.
(Luckily, the cheap Arco is just a few blocks away on 14^th and Mission!)

Just about the cheapest gas you can find in town, and for me, it’s conveniently located between home and work — the only places I drive to/​from. If the price wasn’t so good I’d come here.
If you try to use your debit/​credit card at the pump, it pretty much never works and asks you to go inside to see the cashier. which always pisses me off, the whole reason I’m using my card at the pump is to save me the time and trouble of going inside. So I just try to remember to get a $ 20 before I head here, and then pay with cash to save even more on gas.
Unfortunately, this means you have to go inside to pay, which means you have to deal with all the homeless and crack heads that have decided to take up residence at this gas station. You get harassed by half a dozen people asking for money, asking to fill your tank or clean your windshield. and generally, the ladies behind the counter could not be any ruder. it’s almost like I’m not even standing there with money in my hand trying to pay them.

How much are you willing to put up with for cheap gas. If I wasn’t paid by the hour to go there and fill up the truck with diesel I would’ve gone elsewhere a long time ago. Its pot luck on the pumps. Sometimes they work well and others they are really slow. Number 10 seems to be the most temperamental and 11 the most consistent! Poorly laid out on busy junction, it’s not the easiest place to get in and out of in a truck especially with the panhandlers wandering around the station. THe pump handles leave a thick black oily residue on your hands but there is no paper towel available and good luck asking at the counter. As ridiculous as it sounds, I bring my own tissues and never touch anything without using them… but that’s not the major issue. When i say «$ 100 on 11 please» I always feel a little like I’m in Vegas but here it really is a gamble. Its a battle to get change (always get a receipt), pumps malfunction and it doesn’t always feel safe to produce a wallet in there. The staff are not friendly, Especially the woman who works there (I only ever see one). Last time I went I paid for a few snacks by debit card and she charged it credit. Not a huge deal for me but I did say debit and that’s what’s written on the card. Anyway I asked again if she could run it as debit. She threw a pen and receipt at me and snapped «sign it» and began serving the customer behind me. I repeated my request and she snapped «its too late». Visa or debit wasn’t a major deal for me I didn’t argue anymore but her attitude was so wrong I almost felt like battling. But in the end ITS JUST NOT WORTH IT. I won’t go again, even if I’m offered money to go!

The last night Jeff Seal was in town we got wasted and stood outside of this place eating fried food. Because that’s what this place is, a fried-​food joint. Taquitos, chicken wings, corn dogs, mozzarella sticks, anything you can get in your grocer’s freezer, you can get here, already rolled around on hot rollers. I cannot speak for the gasoline.

I’ve been meaning to give this place a real mean, seething, nasty review for weeks now… thought I might as well do it tonight while I’m on a roll!
Up until recently, I would buy gas here pretty frequently since it’s one of the cheaper spots in the mission and they give a «cash discount» (if you pay with cash as opposed to credit, you save a few cents per gallon). As such, I one day pulled in here before a long-​distance drive with an already half full tank, and gave the cashier a twenty. My tank took something like $ 14.95 worth of gas, so I hopped back inside to get my $ 5.05 in change. Simple enough, right?
WRONG! The woman dismissively throws me a nickel and starts to ring up the next person in line. I was like, uh, hold up, I need five more dollars back. She was like, «no, you gave me $ 15…» and she kept ringing up the person behind me. She just wanted to get rid of me, it was so obvious!
But I was like, oh HELLS NO, woman! This woman, by the way, had a mullet, and lemme tell ya, it was baaaaaad. I said, «excuse me, but I originally gave you a twenty dollar bill!» and she goes, «I don’t think so.» She was really looking me up and down, frowning all over me and shit… she was just so sure that she was right, you know, and it was totally unfounded! LIke I, of all people, would try to rip Gas and Stop off five flipping bucks! And she was super harsh and rude about it, too. like I couldn’t have POSSIBLY given her a twenty, like there was NO WAY in hell that I could’ve!
Finally, I just looked her straight in the eye, stood my ground, and said, «NO…I gave you twenty dollars, and you now owe me five dollars.» She reluctantly opened the cash drawer and produced a five dollar bill at that point, frowning at me the whole time.
I was so pissed! The nerve! I can’t believe this woman tried to play me for a fool! I understand that she might have been suffering from low company morale that day or something, but you can’t NOT CARE so much that you rudely shoo away paying customers who just want proper change!

oh my god, can you just say WORD, this place has the cheapest GAS I have ever seen in a long time.4 REAL, I put in 10 dollars and it was a half tank @ 2.85 per gallon compared to any other time lately this was AMAZINGLY CHEAP. I can not believe no one goes to the secret gas station to fill up for cheap I tell you cheap cheap cheap… I have never seen such beautiful prices like that in a long time, wow… what a treat.