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underpants

(182,774 posts)
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 08:41 AM Sep 2016

FREE COFFEE!!

FREE coffee at WAWA today apparently means "by the cup".
I tried to explain to the manager that I was going to end up with a gallon of Mocha Mint ice coffee* anyway so why not just let me take it in the easy to carry container? She wasn't going for it.

I was going to make a civil rights stand but unlike the hot cheese dispenser at 7-11 I can't get my head under the nozzle.

* mmmmm it's like a York peppermint patty milkshake but with caffeine

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FREE COFFEE!! (Original Post) underpants Sep 2016 OP
You so silly! mucifer Sep 2016 #1
Wawa has the best coffee!! Freddie Sep 2016 #2
Thanks. Swinging by after the gym. nt onehandle Sep 2016 #3
What the hell's a WAWA? StrictlyRockers Sep 2016 #4
One stop gas station - food - COFFEE underpants Sep 2016 #5
It is an eastern Native American word for "goose" jberryhill Sep 2016 #6
"Taco Trucks Versus Wawas" -coming soon on the Sci-Fi channel. randome Sep 2016 #7
I'm a little ways north of the Wawa / Royal Farms border jberryhill Sep 2016 #8
I had never heard of Wawa before about 2 years ago OriginalGeek Sep 2016 #16
Wawa is a convenience store chain on the East Coast meow2u3 Sep 2016 #14
She's an American broadcast journalist. bluesbassman Sep 2016 #15
What's a In-N-Out Burger? NutmegYankee Oct 2016 #19
Thank you for this reminder jberryhill Sep 2016 #9
Today is world coffee day malaise Sep 2016 #10
One of our local Wawa stores Freddie Sep 2016 #11
It's National Coffee Day! Greybnk48 Sep 2016 #12
LOL underpants Sep 2016 #13
Wawa "cheesteaks" are okay if you are desperate jberryhill Sep 2016 #17
I live in Wisconsin! I AM Greybnk48 Oct 2016 #18

underpants

(182,774 posts)
5. One stop gas station - food - COFFEE
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 09:04 AM
Sep 2016

I think they started in the Northeast.
Not great food but sandwiches made to order.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
6. It is an eastern Native American word for "goose"
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 09:05 AM
Sep 2016

It is also a dairy in the Philadelphia area which expanded into a chain of really nice convenience store / sandwich shops.

If you want to have a taco truck on every corner in this region, you are going to park them in the Wawa parking lots, because there is a Wawa on every corner here already.

Imagine a 7-11 which is clean, well-lit, has friendly employees, nice music piped in, and sandwiches made to order with fresh ingredients.

And, yes, a selection of good coffee.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
7. "Taco Trucks Versus Wawas" -coming soon on the Sci-Fi channel.
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 09:07 AM
Sep 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.
[/center][/font][hr]

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
8. I'm a little ways north of the Wawa / Royal Farms border
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 09:10 AM
Sep 2016

Royal Farms - Wawa with fried chicken.

But they are seriously duking it out for the best corners.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
16. I had never heard of Wawa before about 2 years ago
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 10:37 AM
Sep 2016

then they popped up all over Orlando.

Now I won't go anywhere else for my convenience store needs. I will even go out of my way to get to a Wawa. Which is less convenient but still more so than the inconvenience of stepping into a 7-11 or Racetrack. I get lunch there a couple times a week - the cashier at the one close to work knows my name. It's nice.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)
14. Wawa is a convenience store chain on the East Coast
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 10:20 AM
Sep 2016

It's most prevalent in Pennsylvania and New Jersey AFAIK.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
9. Thank you for this reminder
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 09:12 AM
Sep 2016

My exercise program includes walking 1000 feet and back to the Wawa for a sammich.

I had not realized it was free coffee day.

I will prepare a range of disguises.

Freddie

(9,259 posts)
11. One of our local Wawa stores
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 09:36 AM
Sep 2016

Has the honor of being the place where Mitt Romney visited when he campaigned (in a last ditch effort to win PA) in 2012. He was amazed at the sandwich-ordering kiosk.

Greybnk48

(10,167 posts)
12. It's National Coffee Day!
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 10:04 AM
Sep 2016

They're giving free coffee away at all of our Kwik Trips in Wisconsin today. Kwik Trip is awesome and heading toward WAWA status, but does not hold a candle to WAWA. No deli where they cook things like cheesesteaks and have hoagies. If we had WAWA in Wisconsin, I'd weigh 400#! I'd be in a Trump speech!

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