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.”
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When I was a kid it was either the pig or food giant and you got green stamps too
There used to be a supermarket called Super Duper where I grew up. Not quite as good as Piggly Wiggly but pretty good.
I’ve been to many wawas up in that area. Slow service is an understatement. I seen snails move past the line faster. Surprised it took this long for a customer to snap!
It used to be a nice area until the Methodists moved in.
Never bring a wawa to a wawa fight?
I used to wonder when I was a teenager why anyone would name a convenience store chain after an electric guitar effects pedal . . .
The Wawas around here are packed on a consistent basis. As the company has opened stores in more ahem, “urban” neighborhoods, they get the shootings and killings that go along with it.
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Dude was feeling “dissed” and that set him on edge.
> NOTHING holds a candle to the “Piggly Wiggly.” Best supermarket name ever, bar none.
And inexpensive as well!!
The Philly ‘tards will STILL vote the “D” no matter what. Port Richmond saw a good portion of BLM/Antifa violence and destruction and now see the barbarism from the typical Philly sh*tholes.
Good one.
What is “Wawa”?
Where I live in central western NJ, Wawa is the schnizzle. Great convenience store, clean, and the made to order items are solid as hell every time.
Is it just me or do cashiers just take their sweet time no matter how long the checkout line is, when it used to be that a good cashier would step it up a little in order to keep things moving at a reasonable pace? I’m sick of having to adapt to retail, etc. business employees and their ever-expanding comfort zones! Come on, man, get the lead out!
The system is so entrenched that it wouldn’t matter if Philly voters were to vote overwhelmingly R in an election. The final count would still register D and the election officials may not even realize that the real vote was R.
Are they troubled by the 800,000 plus mystery mail in ballots that were dropped off at 4 am the morning after November's election?
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“NOTHING holds a candle to the “Piggly Wiggly.” Best supermarket name ever, bar none.”
PW was also the first modern supermarket with the stock arranged on shelves for shoppers to browse through. At the time other stored would take your list, fill the basket you brought with you and off you went.
PW also invented the shopping basket. Owner Clarence Saunders noted that women would shop until their hand baskets got full and would stop.
He took some hand baskets, attached wheels and push handles and set them at the entrance to the store. When women didn’t use them he hired women to “shop” using the wheeled baskets. When they still didn’t catch on he paid young doctors to stand outside and extoll the health benefits of the wheeled baskets. Their use took off and women bought MORE at one time than they previously had.
PW also was the first to pricemark each item, the first to have clerks in uniforms and the originator of the supermarket franchise model.
Best coffee best customer service. Wawa is native American for Canadian Geese hence their logo, and the first store was in the town of Wawa.
Privately owned, no franchises, not on the stock market.
If they open any nearby 7 Eleven is finished.
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