Strange things are afoot at the Circle K

    This time in a good way, however. There's a Circle K in Forest Acres (Columbia's answer to Brookline) which had (or at least reflects) a great idea: the gas price sign changes from credit to cash! Everyone has been to gas stations where a relatively low price is shown very clearly on the big sign out front, and it's only when you get up close (or up to a pump) that you find that this is the cash price. The credit card price is five or ten cents higher. (There is one station in the area where they obviously received some complaints, because by the prices for each of the 3 grades of gas it says "CASH" in increasingly large letters.) But I think Circle K, or possibly just this location, is reallly onto something. It's so simple; instead of an old fashioned fixed price sign, you get one that electronically displays one after the other both the cash price and the credit price. (Of course they could go really crazy and just display both, but that would require writing each in half the space, which probably wouldn't really work out.) So yay to Circle K!