Source: ZeroHedge.com
Yet another Philadelphia Wawa is packing it up and calling it quits from the city.
The most recent location is at Headhouse Square, located in the middle of Society Hill, an otherwise affluent neighborhood on extending north from the tourist-area of South Street.
Resident Howard Wool said in reaction to a statement from the Society Hill Civic Association: “It’s really shocking. This is a nice neighborhood. They got nice people here, but I guess it can happen anywhere in the city.”
The statement, reported by Fox 29, warned of two different two strong-armed robberies over the last week at the TD Bank which is adjacent to the Wawa. The CVS located across the street from the Wawa had announced it would be closing down last year.
Wawa said in a statement that it “Constantly conducts careful and extensive evaluations of business performance and operational challenges of all stores on an ongoing basis.”
Neighbor Dayna Sacharov said: “A lot of the homeless, but it’s not that. It’s like the kids on the bikes and the late-night people. They come in there and they steal stuff. They even hired a security guard.”…