POV: You Own a Gas Station in the 90s — The Margins Will Break Your Heart

You just signed the papers on your own gas station in 1994. Two pumps out front, a Coke machine, a cash register that still uses a paper roll. You think you're selling gasoline. You're wrong. You're actually running a cigarette and lottery ticket store that happens to also sell gas at a margin so thin a bad week of credit card fees can wipe it out completely. Then a hypermarket opens two miles down the road and starts selling gas as a loss leader just to get people into their parking lot. Welcome to owning a gas station in 90s America. #90s #gasstation #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #pov #nostalgia #retro #americana #businessowner #1990s #convenience store Runtime: 12:24. Narration: 2,385 words. This video is an educational documentary about business economics. It is not financial, legal or investment advice. Figures are illustrative ranges and will vary by market, location and time. The narration in this video is voiced with a synthetic (AI) voice. The script and the images were made by the channel, not generated. This video contains AI-generated or synthetically altered content.