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Posted on 10/26/2022 7:37:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Two Wawa stores in Philadelphia closed for good over the weekend, while other locations are shortening hours amid an uptick in crime.
“We are very sorry we can’t be there for our friends and neighbors at these two locations, but we continue to serve the community from our other nearby stores and our commitment to the greater region remains strong,” Wawa said in a statement to FOX 29, regarding the locations at 12th and Market and 19th and Market. “Philadelphia is our hometown and that’s something that will never change.”
Locations in Feasterville, a Philadelphia suburb, will be closed between midnight and 5 a.m. ET.
Earlier this month, an employee was pepper sprayed during a robbery at a store in the Philadelphia neighborhood of University City.
“Despite reducing hours and investing in additional operational measures, continued safety and security challenges and business factors have made it increasingly difficult to remain open in these two locations,” the company said in a statement earlier this month. “All associates from these two stores will be offered continued employment at Wawa.”
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And in the non marxist suburbs...
Wawas are spreading like dandelions.
What they mean is black people.
Easiest way to tell if your are in a slum is to look for a grocery store. If a neighborhood does not have one large (Kroger Safeway) grocery store in it and is dependent on 7-11’s, liquor stores, Aldi, Target, or Walmart for groceries and staple supplies, that neighborhood is a crime infested slum.
Grocery stores do not have the margins to support ‘shrinkage’ of inventory past certain levels. Workers wages are not high enough to support the risk of trauma working in environments like that. Quick and easy eye test of neighbor quality right there. And those slums can be out in the sticks too...
They recently(multiple years ago) expanded Wawa University in Chester Heights PA.
I had a new terminal pole set for the new switch gear and primary electric service.
You must be from the South.
Up here we have Acme, Giant, Whole Foods, and Wegman’s.
Another thing to look for are off-market discount local grocery chains (“Western Beef” “Food Bazaar”). Although at least in my part of the world, these only succeed in areas with large employed (but still poor) immigrant populations. Once you get to the native born underclass you lack even those.
“You see that place that says ‘Rib Tips’?”
There will be a Michelle Obama “food desert” in these neighborhoods.
What is not discussed explicitly, is why major supermarket chains, pull out of these areas.
If I recall correctly, people such as Michelle Obama are critical of the major chain stores for avoiding certain areas, but doesn’t tell us why this happens.
Two are the ones announced so far. There will be more.
One of them is downtown in the business district, which is even more disturbing. These aren’t Wawas in rough neighborhoods. They are right downtown.
...because of Democrats.
Stores closings in a downtown commercial district actually makes some sense in broader context.
Office occupancy here in Dallas is about 60% of where it was in January 2020 and Texas never went as lock down as the northeast did. If your pool of paying customers declines, but the pool of petty criminal ‘store visitors’ remains the same (and more desperate because there are fewer spare change donors), per store economics had to have been crushed.
I live in a rural area and Walmart is the only grocery store for 10 miles.
It’s large and has a pretty good selection.
We have a 96% homogenous population, everyone is armed and there is very, very little crime.
” These aren’t Wawas in rough neighborhoods. They are right downtown.”
They make pretty good subs. That’d be a draw in a downtown setting.
If Fetterman released a lot of criminals, they could get security jobs in these stores. /s
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No chain appears to be nationwide. In New England, we have Stop and Shop, Shoprite, and Big Y.
“These aren’t Wawas in rough neighborhoods. They are right downtown.”
Seems like downtown Philly IS a rough neighborhood nowadays.
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