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Post by SUVFan on Feb 17, 2024 11:33:37 GMT -5
Meanwhile, WaWa, "The iconic convenience-store chain that’s synonymous with Philly and Jersey pride plans to open 280 new stores in the South and Midwest, according to Bloomberg." The article says the targeted expansion states are: North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana." HotSkel had previously noted the chain's plans to reach Ohio and a couple of other MW states but the magnitude of this plan is amazing!
Source (Bloomberg is behind a paywall):
www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/02/16/wawa-is-headed-south
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Post by edindetroit on Mar 14, 2024 12:00:43 GMT -5
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Post by edindetroit on Mar 14, 2024 20:54:59 GMT -5
From the article
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Post by SUVFan on Mar 26, 2024 10:34:38 GMT -5
Last fall, I took a road trip south thru Kentucky into Tennessee and on to Georgia. A few weeks before that, a story about a new Buc'ees caught my eye. I'd never visited one and was very curious. This thread is about c-stores and it's a huge stretch to include Buc'ees in it. But I'll classify it as a c-store on massive steroids. What follows is most of a post I made in the Did You Buy Fuel thread after my trip that fits (except for Buc'ees size!) better here.
I visited the Union Grove Buc-ee's in Calhoun, GA -- between ATL and Chattanooga -- on I-75. What a massive operation! The store (it can't be called a "C-store"!) has over 50,000 square feet of space. The food area had 4 kinds of prepared sammiches -- including brisket and pulled pork -- but as Hotskel noted previously, no indoor eating area, though there were several picnic tables outside near the door facing the pumps. This Fox5 (ATL) video from the opening of the Calhoun store gives a nice overview of the food offerings.
They had two amazingly long rows of pumps -- 120 total. It looked like at least 75% were being used (kind of hard to see when there are two separate long canopies, each with double stacked pumps!). I never saw a price sign and I didn't fill up there. I couldn't find a photo of the one I visited but, for those who've never been, this smaller Texas store is a decent example, though it has only 64 pumps:
This article anticipates the opening of the Calhoun travel center.
On the way home, I noticed signs for another location near Lexington, which I drove past on the freeway. It had only a single row of pumps -- double stacked -- but the row was a lot longer than the one in Georgia.
I had hoped to get to the new, huge one near Knoxville but that location was over 20 miles east of where I-75 passes thru.
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Post by SUVFan on Mar 26, 2024 10:38:30 GMT -5
The previous post sets up this one. I posted what follows in the Did you buy? thread the other day.
Came across a very unusual story. Apparently a guy has been banned from going to any Buc-ees for life after taking his emotional support duck inside the chain's largest store just east of Knoxville:
FWIW, that's an incredibly well behaved duck!
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Post by SUVFan on Apr 20, 2024 9:42:16 GMT -5
I've been meaning to look into a chain that's relatively new to the Cbus area. I finally remembered to do it today.
The chain is Bellstores.
I noticed them first popping up on GB. More recently, a new Bellstores replaced a Shell station in Johnstown, which I drive past fairly often, most recently yesterday.
The Bellstores chain (see link to their "about us" page below), it turns out, is owned by Campbell Oil, a company that started in Massillon, Ohio in 1939. The company:
The chain began to partner with several other companies in 2004, including DQ, Subway and Marathon.
Today, they have 77 locations, all in Ohio, I believe.
bellstores.com/home/about-us/bellstores-history/
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Post by SUVFan on Jul 31, 2024 18:38:56 GMT -5
I scrolled deeper than normal into my bookmarks and was reminded of this thread. Several of us have been posting about SheetZ expansion in several states in the Did you buy gas thread. That thread gets a lot more activity than this one, mostly unrealated to C-store development.
So I thought I'd try to consolidate some of the posts here, starting with one of mine that updates SheetZ relatively recent invasion of Central Ohio:
When I last posted two years ago about SheetZ development in Central Ohio, they had only 14 stores and I wasn't sure if they had plans for more. Well, they've since doubled that total and, obviously, are starting on one more.
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Post by SUVFan on Aug 1, 2024 12:58:03 GMT -5
HotSkel's comment on my previous post (above) and my reply follow:
WOW! That's crazy. 28 stores already. Have you ever seen A SheetZ gas truck? In Pa. ALL their stores are serviced by their own gas trucks which remarkably are always clean. I've never seen an unbranded gas truck dispensing fuel at SheetZ. I was just wondering as I'm sure they're not going to come from Pa. to Columbus to deliver fuel. If they are getting fuel delivered from SheetZ own trucks that would mean they must have a distribution center nearby.
According to this report, SheetZ is in the process of building a distribution center in Findlay Ohio to service their expansion in Ohio and the state up north. Findlay is a little more than halfway between cbus and Toledo. There's a lot more at this link: www.supplychaindive.com/news/sheetz-building-distribution-center-ohio/692272/
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Post by SUVFan on Aug 1, 2024 13:05:02 GMT -5
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Post by SUVFan on Aug 9, 2024 12:07:41 GMT -5
Not sure if the SheetZ noted in the folliwng post was included in the 29 figure, above or not?A new Sheetz at Roberts Road and Walcutt Road on the West Side opened last week, with introductory low prices of $3.09 for regular while almost everyone else charged $3.69. The Speedway on the opposite corner was forced to follow suit. As of today, they are still at $3.09 while other stations are starting to come down.
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Post by edindetroit on Aug 13, 2024 12:20:14 GMT -5
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Post by SUVFan on Aug 23, 2024 19:27:09 GMT -5
I was checking to see how low a SheetZ in Canal Winchester, Ohio was the other day when I was headed there for a golf game and noticed really low prices for a SheetZ in Lancaster Ohio -- $2.99 per gallon -- and knew it had to be a grand opening promo. So I looked for the story tonight and found the one referenced in the quote below, but it's behind a paywall:
Story link: www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/2024/July/22/1-Sheetz-Kwik-Trip-and-More-Open-New-Stores_Ops
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Post by edindetroit on Sept 6, 2024 19:41:57 GMT -5
Stopped at the new Sheetz and had lunch. Got a grilled chicken sub on wheat, toasted with mayo and pickles. Really good sub that lived up to their reputation. The place was really busy still but not like opening day. I did have to wait a while to get my food.
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Post by edindetroit on Sept 12, 2024 20:26:56 GMT -5
I thought I edited this in but I guess not.
One thing that is odd is you order at one kiosk and then you have to go to another kiosk to pay for it. Then you go queue up to get your food.
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Post by SUVFan on Sept 13, 2024 7:26:30 GMT -5
I think if you order using the app, you skip the first kiosk and go straight to the one where you pay -- or maybe there's a way to pay on the app, too, and you just pick up your food?
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