Posted on 08/14/2021 11:05:38 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Police are investigating a stabbing inside a West Mount Airy Wawa. They say it started because of a disgruntled customer. It happened at the store located on the 7200 block of Germantown Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police say an employee was unpacking boxes when a male customer began yelling and then punched and choked the employee because he wasn’t being served.
When the man tried to go around the counter with a knife, investigators say the employee pulled out his own knife, stabbing the suspect.
“That’s crazy, especially when you coming to work the normal shift and you have to fight somebody off. That’s insane,” a customer told Eyewitness News.
Wawa customers say they’re extremely troubled by growing violence in the city.
“It is every day. No matter where you go, you are constantly looking over your shoulder,” Brian Hart, who lives in Port Richmond, said. “It is just, you know, not really safe place to live anymore, I don’t think.”
(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...
“PW was also the first modern supermarket with the stock arranged on shelves for shoppers to browse through.”
It was the first “supermarket” that I ever saw, back in the 30s.
For what it’s worth, Wawa was never a supermarket; but always a dairy store first, and later adding coffee, cakes, and sandwiches, and later becoming a convenience store. See post 58.
We had a place called the Nummy. “Fill your tummy at the Nummy” was the slogan.
It was a burger joint.
The Lenape indian territory extended from Canada down to Philadelphia and Delaware, so it's no surprise that Canada also has a Wawa town, since Wawa is from their language, meaning "Canada goose".
The best name I liked for a supermarket is Top Notch, Everybody and Popular...
Don’t you just love America? The free market economy is freedom at work.
The envy of the world and the Left who wants to tear her done.
Wow, that’s a lot of innovation!
I first went to a WaWa in the summer of 1970 in Downingtown, PA. My folks moved there and it was the closest market. We had the old A&P in town for big shopping trips, but WaWa always a good, clean convenience store and they have kept up the innovation.
How we used to laugh about the name!
Nothing beat the Rita’s Italian Water Ice shop in town in summer, though!
Piggly Wiggly is OWNED by C&S Distributors of Keene, New Hampshire. C&S is a big food distributor, serving supermarkets.
Yep.
Yes, I first saw a Sheetz in Virginia a few years back and thought it was a weird name. LOL They had decent cappuccino for a convenience store, though.
Especially when pronounced in the Philly-Wilmington version of the Tidewater accent. "Yo, Ohm goiwn t'duh WuahWuah."
After the Boston comedians, here is Tina Fey, who grew up in Philadelphia, demonstrating the Philly accent (around minute 3):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcziw7helVg
Yo, Reeduh's iTahl-yin Wudder Oice!
You go all “Gorillas in the Mist” on me I reserve the right to go all “Josey Wales” on you.
“Interesting. What’s old is new again!”
Only nowadays they do it because of theft and from behind bullet resistant glass.
For a long time it was the ONLY supermarket. Store owners were reluctant to change to Saunders business model.
Things didn’t change dramatically until after WW2. By then innovation was the word and things changed rapidly.
Loved their slogan: I’m sticking with the pig!”
I never heard of WaWa until I ran into one in Pa, forget which town. I never did know the history of the chain. It sounds like they adapted with the times and stayed relevant.
Good for them.
A WaWa timeline
https://www.wawa.com/about/wawa-history
Another Pa original that started out as a dairy store and is now big is Sheetz, out of Altoona, Pa.
Other than their Z fetish they’re pretty good.
https://www.sheetz.com/us
“Wow, that’s a lot of innovation!”
You ain’t just whistling Dixie!
I delivered to the PW distribution center in Bessemer,Al quite a bit. Unlike other DC’s their unloaders would go truck to truck, check the invoice and give a price. At other company DC’s (Food Lion, Kroger, etc) they would have a contracted service. You go in, get your quote and pay.
The unloading at PW was always quick and with a smile and a Thank You as you handed over the check.
At other company DC’s they acted like bad tempered highway robbers.
The only DC I saw that was as quick and efficient as PW was a Meijers DC in Michigan. Fast and friendly.
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