Introduction
The recent trends have had a major impact on the UK (United Kingdom) petroleum retail market. The trend impact has been on the number of petrol filling stations (PFS). The UK Petroleum Industry has undergone major changes since 1970. The changes impacted a decline of PFS with a closure of more than seventy-five percent of PFS and a further decline of twenty-nine percent in 2011 although there has been some reduction in the decline in last five years (Study of the UK Petroleum Retail Market., 2012). Independent dealers had a lot of pressure from the hypermarkets, and this has ...