Sadly, fraud is pretty rampant. You wouldn't believe the stories I hear. It's a difficult thing to manage, because there are hardly any Major Oil Owned and Operated retail stations anymore. So it's literally up to the integrity of the station owner. Plus, even some of the wholesalers, who're are also Branded Independent Retailers, commit fraud. It's most these BIRs who do these little under the table deals with unruly carrier drivers. Like, I'll split the earnings with you. Or, hey, drop that laat 500 gal of regular into my super tank and you can have all of the snacks you want in my store. Lol!
The brand owned companies do what they can to control that type of thing...but, you gotta think, when the station can dispense the evidence of fraud in a single day, it's a challenge!
As far as over blended, you really won't find that. Nobody releases it to the street. I mean, sure, it can happen. It does happen. But it's do to some one off mechanical error, if it leaves the rack over blended. Otherwise, blame the carriers or the consignees. Carriers comingle so much prouct in their transport tankers. From retain or because they're careless. It's also pretty frequent that they screw up entirely and deliver branded product to unbranded stations, or vise verse. And before anybody realizes what happened, all of that product has been dispensed to the end consumer. Lol! It's a circus.
That's why I always say find a reliable, branded filling station.with high throughput. Or fill at Quik Trip or grocers like Kroger, where they sign these contract deals which streanlines their product source and fuel carriers. This will reduce the liklihood of cross contamination and mishandling of product. They usually have dedicated transports and drivers for these deliveries.
