A “retail fuel station” is typically characterized by its provision of a drive-through service. When you visit a retail fuel station, you enter a private property with your vehicle, access a fuel pump for refueling, and then exit the premises.
Conversely, fuel vending machines and fuel shops, at least in the context of Thailand, are typically situated along the roadside or in front of a convenience store. These establishments do not have designated areas for vehicles to stop, meaning that most of the time, customers access them directly from a public road side. Consequently, these fuel options have limited capacity, availability, and primarily cater to customers on motorcycles.
Would this definition apply in your country as well?
here there are basically 2 types, those with a drivethrough (and usually a roof and some kind of enclosed building), like your first example, and those roadside, which usually don’t have a roof, but some kind of booth/office (very small, 2 people can maybe stand inside) is usually present. There are also road markings dedicated to the fuel station so people don’t park there, but if there are several customers they have to queue on the carriageway, so space is quite limited.
Unless there is heavy rain, it doesn’t really make a difference from the customer point of view which kind of station it is as they might provide the same service or not: in urban areas both kind don’t typically provide a convenience store (as is common in Germany, due to some legislation specifics there), there will be compressed air but it will be broken in one way or the other in half of the places, and they might sell light bulbs, windscreen wipers and oil, or not. Also the larger stations tend to operate automatically in the night, unless they are on motorways or some important roads. They all have fuel tanks buried below the surface and usually can provide as much fuel as you like.