Grahame Solid wood opened the initial Wawa GROCERY STORE in 1964 seeing that an electric outlet for Wawa milk products. Since that time, the convenience store has grown right into a well-known business that competes against the biggest market players in the globe in three areas: energy, convenience, and food, all while preserving their personal approach and small business mentality. Now, nearly 50 years later on, Wawa has opened its first store in Florida and started to play on the national field. How did it happen? What are the reasons because of their success? Why have they had the opportunity to go up against the big guys with nothing more than homegrown talent?

With a mixture of personal background and business advice, Howard Stoeckel stocks the last 50 many years of Wawa’s development, development, and enlargement. It’s the story of how a small company having a funny name produced a big difference and all it got was a little goose sense.