PASSHE Institutions Merging

[Bart]

Lock Haven Clearfield campus up for sale. https://www.indianagazette.com/news/...2ab959413.html

The PASSHE governors voted:

They voted to dispose of the soon-to-be-closed Clearfield campus of Commonwealth University (formerly a campus of Lock Haven University, now part of Commonwealth University with Bloomsburg and Mansfield universities).

The entire location is comprised of five properties, three of which are owned by the University:

Two buildings are at 201 University Drive, Founders Hall, built in 2001; and the Health Annex, built in 2009. There also are two tracts of vacant land, 10 acres and 39.06 acres, along Clearfield Woodland Highway, and two properties listed as owned by the Lock Haven University Foundation and including apartments and a parking lot.

[Fightingscot82]

Lourdes University near Toledo is closing. They bet heavily on NAIA sports (no football) and lost.

[IUPNation]

Last time I went to a Circle K the entire checkout process was handled by me and a machine. The lady behind the counter just stood and stared while the customer put his or her items on a little square and the machine figured out what you were buying. Couldn't even a polite "hello" from the employee. It was a very jarring experience compared to the efforts of the big 3 PA chains (Sheetz, Wawa, and Rutter's) to upscale their products and drown you in employee attention.

Circle K was trying to take over the US 7-11’s

If 7-11 ever ran their US stores like they do their Japanese stores..they’d be formidable for Wawa and Sheetz.

[TheBigCat2192]

Circle K's are all sh!tholes.

GetGo is slowly following suit.

Last time I went to a Circle K the entire checkout process was handled by me and a machine. The lady behind the counter just stood and stared while the customer put his or her items on a little square and the machine figured out what you were buying. Couldn't even a polite "hello" from the employee. It was a very jarring experience compared to the efforts of the big 3 PA chains (Sheetz, Wawa, and Rutter's) to upscale their products and drown you in employee attention.

[IUPNation]

ha ha ha that's funny.

Which one is sundowning every night, rage tweeting from the toilet (when he doesn’t crap himself) and posted racist tripe…

But it was an exciting day in Indiana.

[IUPNation]

In any storefront on Forbes or Craig.


GetGo is has started to slide since they were bought by Circle K. Once they disconnect the Giant Eagle advantage card from their system (already have on the car washes) they'll die quickly.

Sounds like an opportunity for Wawa to swoop in……

[Sec10-A-14]

I find that absurd. But I remember previous comments about age that have been made. I'm 66, going on 67 and still do a pretty good job in a professional setting, managing, communicating, planning. So, I think maybe if you add several years to that upper age limit. I think 75 would be appropriate. Seems like both Biden and Trump lost their faculties around 79-80. Trump's demise has come earlier than Biden's.

ha ha ha that's funny.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

In any storefront on Forbes or Craig.


GetGo is has started to slide since they were bought by Circle K. Once they disconnect the Giant Eagle advantage card from their system (already have on the car washes) they'll die quickly.

Circle K's are all sh!tholes.

GetGo is slowly following suit.

[Fightingscot82]

The nearest Get Go to the Pitt campus is either in the South Side on Carson (one at 18th, the other near the Hot Metal Bridge) and one at Baum & Morewood near UPMC Shadyside. I'm not sure where you'd build a gas pump-less Sheetz in Oakland unless you put it somewhere on campus.

In any storefront on Forbes or Craig.


GetGo is has started to slide since they were bought by Circle K. Once they disconnect the Giant Eagle advantage card from their system (already have on the car washes) they'll die quickly.

[IUPNation]

There is also a newer Wawa in Abington that's gasless - it replaced a much older, smaller one that I went to a lot back in the 80s. But then there are a couple bigger ones within a couple of miles that have gas so I'm not sure how much traffic the gasless one gets.

There is a gasless Wawa in Essington that gets tons of traffic and the traffic into it has nothing to do with Lou Turks across the street…😉

[ctrabs74]

Sheetz also tried a gasless location in downtown Morgantown. It too failed.

I could see it working in a place like downtown Pittsburgh or Oakland (Pittsburgh). There's enough foot traffic and the current options (7-11) are as bad as you could imagine.

The nearest Get Go to the Pitt campus is either in the South Side on Carson (one at 18th, the other near the Hot Metal Bridge) and one at Baum & Morewood near UPMC Shadyside. I'm not sure where you'd build a gas pump-less Sheetz in Oakland unless you put it somewhere on campus.

[nodnol]

Wawa has a few gasless stations in Delaware and I believe one in PA on U.S. 202 (it might be just on the DE side, not 100% sure.) In my experience, they’re all much shoddier than any of the locations that have gas pumps.

There is also a newer Wawa in Abington that's gasless - it replaced a much older, smaller one that I went to a lot back in the 80s. But then there are a couple bigger ones within a couple of miles that have gas so I'm not sure how much traffic the gasless one gets.

[Ship69]

Eh. BU doesn’t have a full-blown convenience store on campus, but the Husky Lounge at the Kehr Union has some overlap with similar products like grab & go meals, grab & go salads, bottled soda/sports drinks, and snacks (chips/Slim Jims/sweets). It’s cool for Nova students that they’ll be able to get all the fancy coffees and stuff though.

Ship has a sort of junior convenience store called Big Red's Cupboard in the Ceddia Union Building where students can grab some snacks and drinks. There are also a Dunkin' and a Chick-Fil-A in the CUB. There is a Starbucks in the library.

[Bart]

Sheetz also tried a gasless location in downtown Morgantown. It too failed.

I could see it working in a place like downtown Pittsburgh or Oakland (Pittsburgh). There's enough foot traffic and the current options (7-11) are as bad as you could imagine.

There also was a Wawa on Drexel's campus but it closed.

[IUPNation]

I think it would be almost entirely a food (and coffee) outlet. One thing that is different for Wawa is that there won't be gas pumps. Virtually all of Wawa's new locations have gas pumps, which helps their profitability. The gas-less locations they have opened up in the city haven't succeeded. Nation can correct me if I'm wrong on that.

The center City ones closed because there are less workers during day due to WFH..and thry catered to the daytime workforce before Covid. Center City residents don’t go to Wawa. It was just an easier narrative for Wawa to use “crime” as an excuse they had too many stores nobody was going into..,,