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Wawa Inc. is a chain of convenience store/gas stations located along the East Coast of the United States. It operates in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Florida.〔https://www.wawa.com/pdfs/FortMyers_GrandOpeningRelease_Final_042215.pdf〕 The company's corporate headquarters is located in the Wawa area of Chester Heights, Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia. As of 2008, Wawa was the largest convenience store chain in Greater Philadelphia, and it is also the third largest retailer of food in Greater Philadelphia, after ACME Markets and ShopRite.〔"(Wawa's wonders of retailing, The dairy and convenience-store chain is marking 100 years. )" ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. August 5, 2002. D01. Retrieved on December 21, 2011. "Wawa not only dominates the convenience-store business in the Philadelphia region but is also the third-largest food retailer, trailing only Acme Markets and ShopRite." and "To boost sales, the company opened its first Wawa Food Market in 1964 in Folsom, Delaware County. Stores now spread from central Pennsylvania and central New Jersey to southern Virginia. In the 1970s, the company began selling more coffee by the cup,()"〕 ==History== The Wawa business began in 1803 as an iron foundry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About Wawa )〕 In 1890, George Wood, a businessperson from New Jersey,〔Mayer, Cynthia. "Pay A Visit To Wawa, The Place." ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. June 15, 1989. D4. p. (3 ). Retrieved on September 16, 2012.〕 moved to Delaware County, Pennsylvania; it was here that he began the Wawa Dairy Farm.〔 Wood imported cows from the British island of Guernsey, and bought of land in the Chester Heights area;〔 the corporate headquarters would later be renamed Wawa. Since pasteurization was not yet available, many children faced sickness from consuming raw milk. Wood arranged for doctors to certify his milk was sanitary and safe for consumption, which convinced many consumers to buy the product.〔〔 The strategy worked, and allowed the Wawa dairy to grow. Demand for dairy products grew rapidly during the 1920s, and so did the company. Wawa began using the slogan, "Buy Health by the Bottle," and served customers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, delivering milk to customers' homes. In the 1960s, however, consumers began buying milk in stores instead of using home delivery. Wawa started to open its own stores to adjust to these market changes.〔〔 On April 16, 1964, Grahame Wood opened the first Wawa Food Market at〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wawa — About Wawa — Milestones )〕 1212 MacDade Boulevard in Folsom, Pennsylvania, which is still in operation today.〔 The original Wawa store will be closing with the construction of a new gas station location nearby that is expected to open in spring 2016. The Wawa Food Market stores were also part of a then-new trend in retailing, the convenience store. Open both earlier and later than traditional supermarkets, they carried other foods and beverages besides milk, as well as other items from the Wawa dairy. As of 1989, Wawa Inc. and the Wood family together controlled about 725 acres of land, containing the corporate headquarters, the Wawa dairy farm, and J.T. Farms, within two municipalities in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The properties are located in Chester Heights and Middletown Township. Wawa Inc. owns 50 acres of land around "Red Roof," the corporate headquarters, 150 acres of land around the Wawa dairy, and the 225-acre J.T. Farms. The Wood family also owns 300 acres of estate property. Its extensive land holdings have led to criticism by some, including one journalist who called them "the closest thing to a feudal barony this side of duPont."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wawa Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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