This is from Tom Ignudo at Eyewitness News:*

Another Wawa in Philadelphia is closing after multiple stores stopped operating in the city over the past few years. 

On Thursday, Wawa said the store located at 16th and Ranstead streets in Center City will close on Dec. 9 due to the store’s limited size. The store is located just west of City Hall and between Market and Chestnut streets. 

“Our 16th and Ranstead store initially opened in 2020 as a pilot test of a smaller urban store concept, which also included a walk-up window,” Wawa said in a statement to CBS Philadelphia. “However, due to its limited size, we have determined that we are not able to provide the same kind of in-store experience and full Wawa offer that customers expect.” 

lol at the last sentence. They couldn’t provide the full “in-store experience,” which includes harassment from a panhandler and then having to stand there while the cashier tries to find the right cigarettes for the myriad degenerates in line. Or maybe that’s exclusive to the Aramingo Avenue location. Not totally sure.

Honestly, this is disappointing. Not that this Wawa is closing, but that it’s for a reason other than crime, allegedly. I was hoping the suburban patriots would use this to get back at Pagan after he took some shots at them on the site the other day, in a story titled “Someone Tell the Suburban Patriots That Philadelphia DEMOLISHED Tourism Records in 2024.” The CliffsNotes is that Pagan thinks the city is Shangri fuckin’ La in 2024, while the suburban crime accounts think Philadelphia is a blighted hellscape. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but as the great philosophers used to say, “never let facts get in the way of a good story.”

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