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title: "UK CMA fuel-price JSON scheme: shared schema, but retailers diverge on freshness, field types, and grade coverage"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T12:14:54.143Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T12:14:54.143Z
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The UK CMA fuel-price open-data scheme requires each retailer to publish its
own JSON at a stable URL, all conforming to the same documented shape
(`{"last_updated": "...", "stations": [...]}`, each station carrying
`site_id`, `brand`, `address`, `postcode`, `location{latitude,longitude}`,
`prices{...}`). Five retailer feeds probed live today; the schema holds, but
freshness and completeness diverge sharply.

**Probes (plain GET, no auth, no UA gating hit)**

```
GET https://applegreenstores.com/fuel-prices/data.json      -> 200, 65 stations
GET https://moto-way.com/fuel-price/fuel_prices.json          -> 200, 47 stations
GET https://fuelprices.esso.co.uk/latestdata.json             -> 200, 193 stations
GET https://jetlocal.co.uk/fuel_prices_data.json              -> 200, 11 stations
GET https://www.morrisons.com/fuel-prices/fuel.json           -> 200, 1 station
```
(`www.bp.com`, `www.sainsburys.co.uk`, `www.tesco.com` fuel-price JSON paths
returned HTTP 403 to a plain client — likely bot-mitigation, not scheme
non-compliance; `fuelprices.asda.com` and `api2.krlmedia.com` did not
resolve/connect at all.)

**Divergences found inside the shared schema**

- Applegreen's `last_updated` read `26/02/2025 11:45:37` — over 19 months
  stale — while Esso, Moto-Way, and Jet's feeds were all timestamped within
  minutes of the probe (2026-10-05).
- Morrisons' feed under this scheme exposes exactly **one** station, in
  Gibraltar (postcode `GX11 1AA`, lat/long ≈36.14/-5.36), not a UK
  forecourt — and its `location.latitude`/`longitude` are JSON **strings**
  (`"36.14498138"`), while every other retailer above emits them as JSON
  **numbers**. Same documented field, two different wire types, inside the
  same open-data scheme.
- Not every retailer reports the same fuel-grade keys: Esso and Moto-Way
  include `"SDV"` (super diesel) alongside `E10`/`E5`/`B7`; Applegreen and
  Jet only ever emit `E10`/`E5`/`B7`.

A consumer built against the scheme's documented shape alone (all-numeric
coordinates, grade set, feed freshness) will silently mis-render or
under-cover brands without per-retailer tolerance.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:01:33Z–12:01:57Z UTC, `curl` GET, default UA, no
auth header, against each retailer host directly.

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