I have like 3 Sheetz near me and I think I've only got gas and maybe a few Red Bulls from there.
I got food poisoning from a place like this one time near Michigan and swore I'd never eat anything from a gas station/truck stop again.
So far, so good.

You need the tables, burgers, and beer for when we all have to have damn electric cars and it takes an hour to recharge them...

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Originally posted by Salty Dawg:
I'm so hungry, I could eat a sandwich from a gas station.

I guess you’ve never been to one?

It’s a convenience store that happens to have gas pumps. Gas is a rather new phenomenon (past 20 years or so) in the 70+ years of Wawa’s life

Having grown up outside of Philly, i was excited when they moved into NE Florida a few years ago and they have not disappointed.
The stores are clean and well stocked. The gas prices are always at the low end of the local market, the deli food is excellent. The other stores have had to step up their game to try and keep customers.

Taking on Buc-ees? Thats jumping in the deep end of the pool.

When Wawa first opened for gas around 20 years ago, Their price for gas was always lower than anyone around. Now, they are usually what other stations are charging locally and sometimes even higher price. The gas is not Tier 1 so I normally fill up at Costco when I go there.

All you PA/NJ peeps who grew up with Wawa’s

Do you remember when Wawa:

1. Were tiny like old 7-11’s? (They portray the old ones like this in The Goldbergs)
2. Had an actual deli counter where they’d slice deli meats by the pound for sale?
3. Had you give your hoagie order directly to the counter personal verbally?
4. Did not have gas pumps?
5. Had coffee in the old school glass pots on hotplates that sat and cooked?
6. Had a big pickle barrel you could fish a large delicious Kosher dill out of?

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by Salty Dawg:
I'm so hungry, I could eat a sandwich from a gas station.

I guess you’ve never been to one?

It’s a convenience store that happens to have gas pumps. Gas is a rather new phenomenon (past 20 years or so) in the 70+ years of Wawa’s life

It was just a joke. We have them all around us and I've been plenty. The sandwiches are decent.

Never seen a Wawa, don't think there are any in Texas. I just get Diet Cokes and snacks at my local convenience store, so don't need any of that fancy stuff. Don't buy gas there very often, either.

Isn't Wawa tied to China?

flashguy

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Originally posted by Salty Dawg:
I'm so hungry, I could eat a sandwich from a gas station.

Some sushi?

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Originally posted by PASig:
All you PA/NJ peeps who grew up with Wawa’s

Do you remember when Wawa:

1. Were tiny like old 7-11’s? (They portray the old ones like this in The Goldbergs)
2. Had an actual deli counter where they’d slice deli meats by the pound for sale?
3. Had you give your hoagie order directly to the counter personal verbally?
4. Did not have gas pumps?
5. Had coffee in the old school glass pots on hotplates that sat and cooked?
6. Had a big pickle barrel you could fish a large delicious Kosher dill out of?

I remember that well. There are still a few of the smaller Wawa's around here. My fist wife was an assistant manger of a Wawa around 30 years ago. They were really good when they first came in, we no longer had to take a 20 minute drive at night to find milk for the kids. I still like Wawa we have 3 with gas in our town.

WaWa blows away Sheetz, 7-11 and Turkey Hill. Yes, I remember all of the above.

Very glad to hear the company is doing well and expanding.

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Originally posted by PASig:
All you PA/NJ peeps who grew up with Wawa’s

Do you remember when Wawa:

1. Were tiny like old 7-11’s? (They portray the old ones like this in The Goldbergs)
2. Had an actual deli counter where they’d slice deli meats by the pound for sale?
3. Had you give your hoagie order directly to the counter personal verbally?
4. Did not have gas pumps?
5. Had coffee in the old school glass pots on hotplates that sat and cooked?
6. Had a big pickle barrel you could fish a large delicious Kosher dill out of?

Yep.

Wawa and their NJ competition (QuickChek) used to be just like that... no more.
Incidently, QuickChek was purchased last year by Murphys, so you may be seeing that kind of expansion with them as well.

Wawa used to get all their rolls from one bakery in Philadelphia; Amoroso’s before they began expanding out of the Philadelphia/South Jersey Metro regions around 12-15 years ago.

Then they switched to baking them in-store from presumably frozen dough and at first they were HORRIBLE. The texture was all wrong for a hoagie roll; instead of soft and chewy they were more like baguettes and hard and crispy. They must have gotten a ton of complaints because they gradually dialed them back in and the store baked hoagie rolls now are pretty close to to old Amoroso rolls.

I do miss the days of a TastyKake pie being two for a dollar, last time I got one it was like $2.99 and wasn’t very good.

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Originally posted by VBVAGUY:
We have a lot of WaWa's here in Virginia and I go to them often. I have not noticed any no firearm signs in the ones I go to, but then again I am not looking for them and legally carry concealed . Next time I go I will check and update this post. God Bless

You guys have them in NoVa, but us out here in the piedmont have to live with Sheetz and the no compete contracts with QT and WaWa. So all we have is Sheetz

 
I opened the thread looking to find out what the acronym stood for. I have never heard of WAWA before today.

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Originally posted by henryaz:
 
I opened the thread looking to find out what the acronym stood for. I have never heard of WAWA before today.

It's not an acronym. "Our Logo: "Wawa" is a Native American word for the Canada Goose that was found in the Delaware Valley over 100 years ago. Our original Dairy farm was built on land located in a rural section of Pennsylvania called Wawa. That's why we use the goose on Wawa's corporate logo."

I would gladly trade Sheetz here in Central PA for Wawa. I like Wawa much better. Plus, Sheetz coffee got terrible once they went to their new automatic coffee makers.

I'm in York county and the closest Wawa is in Lancaster county.

I have three WAWAs within 20 minutes of my house. Two are the big WAWAs that sell gas as well as the convenience items in the store. One is just the store with no gas sales. How are they? Well, you often have difficulty finding a parking spot at busy times of the day. That speaks for itself. Since it's a convenience store, people are always going in and out, so you just wait until a spot opens up. Their hoagies are very good. You basically go to the touch screen and punch it what you want. (I know. Hoagies have many names, but here in South Jersey they are known as hoagies.) Many people like their soups and other quick food items for sale. Breakfast sandwiches are good too. Count me in. I like WAWA.

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Originally posted by Tn226:
Not to steal Wawa’s thunder but
In n Out is moving south

https://www.wate.com/news/tenn...-bill-lee-announces/

No, In-N-Out Burger is moving East.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Never seen a Wawa, don't think there are any in Texas.
Isn't Wawa tied to China?

flashguy

Majority of stock is in the hands of the original family. The rest is employee (ESOP). China would need to marry into the Wood family or send a few thousand people to work there 'til.retirement.