Gas Prices Force Local Businesses To Make ChangesCHARLOTTE, NC- Pain at the pump for you and businesses across the Charlotte area. Gas prices have jumped 21 cents in just over two weeks, which is forcing local businesses to make changes that could affect you. Drivers at We'll Get It drive about 200 miles a day delivering food. Right now, they charge a delivery fee, but since gas prices jumped, they've been forced to add a small service fee. now, everyone's working together to save money.
"If we see a cheaper gas station, we'll communicate that to the other drivers,” said Melanie Clark, a driver for We'll Get It.
For fear of losing business, the business is biting the bullet instead of passing rising costs onto customers. Managers have even had to reduce employee hours when possible. "If the gas continues to go up, the first thing we'll do is cut back on the mileage. If it doesn't make a difference, we'll definitely have to raise the delivery fee," said Clark. Lettuce Carry uses costly diesel for up to 20 home grocery deliveries a day. All deliveries are free and they want to keep it that way, so managers are condensing routes and re-working schedules. "We check all the address and make sure that we're not double tracking and going back and forth. If we have two in Concord, even if they're in different time slots, we try to them sandwichas close together as we can," said Holly Wharry, Lettuce Carry director of marketing.
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