A 24-7 Food Mart has opened at Christian Street and Moyamensing Avenue, the fifth former Wawa location in my survey. The neighborhood, Queen Village, is not Center City but it is contiguous to it, and is nice enough for me to count.
Wawa signage directs customers to the soda fountain.
All but one the five Wawas that have closed in Center City since 2002, are home to convenience stores with deli counters (the Dorchester store off Rittenhouse Square which had been vacant is now home to a new 7-11). This would seem to suggest that these Wawas were not closed because they were unprofitable concerns, but because they were not profitable enough. Wawa has apparently decided to focus instead on expansion into Maryland and Virginia and suburban Mega-Wawas replete with gasoline pumps. The irony of this business decision is that it is many of Wawa's neighbors and some of their earliest customers - urban Philadelphians residents - who are left with no Wawa stores.
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