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Fuel and Food Are Quick, but the Fealty Is Forever – The Times
The comforts of two chains of convenience stores — Wawa in the east, and Sheetz to the west — inspire Pennsylvanians to choose sides.
There really isn’t any new ground in this Times story — I blogged about it 4 years ago when The [...]

Wawa vs. Sheetz: Isn’t That Convenient? – The PostHank Stuever has a long column comparing and contrasting two Pennsylvania based convenience stores, Wawa (of the Philadelphia suburbs) and Sheetz (of Altoona). The former tends to be found as your get closer to the ocean and the latter closer to the mountains. Basically, I-95/The Fall Line [...]

This morning I heard another Wawa ad on WTOP. I remember hearing that Wawa was going to charging into this market two years ago, but the nearest Wawa to me is Woodbridge, not exactly close. In fact on our drive down to the Carolinas, we passed at least four on the I-95 corridor. There is [...]

STONE HARBOR, N.J.– The “socially sanctioned form of adult play” that is reading The Times is something I don’t have time for in my daily life, so getting to do so is one of the highlights of vacation . I know I’m not the only one who feels this way.
I thought I was in luck [...]

Since I pretty much gave up on McDonald’s and other fast food joints, I have switched to Subway and other chain sandwich joints for quick meals. I almost always go with a roast beef on wheat without cheese or mayo. Here is a rundown of my favorites
Sheetz
In the last six months Sheetz, the Altoona based [...]