You might want to check those numbers…5.89 billion in sales in 2009? That means the each store averages over 10m in sales and customers spend an average of $15,000 per year at wawa?

Mike, what does that even mean? Did I abandon a room with no air for a room with oxygen? They weren’t making money in the city because of either high rates or citizens who didn’t want them enough to spend their money on them.

No longer a fan. The folksy, homespun aura that was wawa, has been replaced by profit driven outsiders to the original Woods family ideals. I no longer drop a $20 on a daily basis. I’ll drive out of my to avoid. My final straw was the ruining of the coffee product. It is truly awful now. No longer fresh & dependable…Those new canister dispensers are terrible, serving a bad product.

Those vapid sprawl mini mart WAWA’s always have the cheapest gas. Maybe they could open one of those down town?

There is a massive typo in the chart. It would be impossible if they only served 400,000 customers a year. With 587 store, that works out to be less than two customers a day per store?

That 400,000 number makes zero sense.

At 5.89 billion dollars in sales, that would mean each customer spent $14,725, or $40 a day every single day.

At 17,000 employees, that would mean that each employee only saw 24 customers in the space of an entire year. Even if you assume that only a quarter of the employees work at a till, that means each till employee only served 94 people. All year. Really?

You’ll get an equally silly number if you add up all the doughnuts etc on a per capita basis.

Basically, check your spreadsheet.

400,000 per day would be closer, but with 590 stores, that figure still seems like it might be low. About 680 people a day? I figure most Wawas do well over 1000 people per day.

Used to love Wawa, but Old Nelson is actually a lot better in just about every respect.

Jay – “lack of oxygen” really? The city stores they abandoned were high volume stores in center city. It wasn’t a lack of sales, it’s just yet another short-sighted decision not to do business if they can’t do deliveries with an 18-wheeler.

@barryG The one things tilts the scale to Wawa in my mind is the free ATMs. It ends up being a huge draw. I used to love Wawa hoagies alot more than I currently do as well. Certainly there are better delis out there, but none more popular.

@kbor Dick Wood’s Chairman of the board of directors now, not CEO.

A little while back, I heard some noise about them going public and possibly using the proceeds to purchase a regional gas station chain like a Sunoco. I fear that would be their “jump the shark” moment.

Yeah, I don’t get why we always crow so much about wawa. They’re fine, but they basically have no presence in the city anymore.