The convenience store is the 40th addition this year for Wawa, which plans up to 76 new locations in 2023, the company said. Wawa packed other eye-popping statistics into the announcement of the Gloucester Township store’s opening. The convenience store chain also is giving $1,000 each to charities chosen by the departments. Wawa opened its first store in suburban Philadelphia in 1964 and entered the South Jersey market four years later. It launched the convenience store chain as home delivery of dairy products declined in the early 1960s.

Source: Forbes August 30, 2023 18:08 UTC