{"id":148051,"date":"2025-08-15T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148051\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:48:10","slug":"wawa-celebrates-grand-opening-of-jacksonville-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148051\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa celebrates grand opening of Jacksonville store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Crowds of people came out to celebrate a popular gas station chain\u2019s grand opening in Onslow County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wawa opened its doors in Jacksonville at 8 a.m. yesterday with many residents, local and state officials, and store employees in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The gas station, located at 1079 Western Boulevard, offered plenty of festivities for all to enjoy as officials cut the red ribbon, including free t-shirts for the first 250 customers and free any-size hot coffee, which will be available until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A ceremony for the store\u2019s employees and a hoagie-building competition among first responders that benefited local charities were also a part of the grand opening fun. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a press release from Wawa, the chain hopes to continue opening locations in North Carolina, with plans to open up four more stores by the end of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wawa says they plan to build and open six to eight stores each year, with a goal to open 90 stores in the state over the next eight to ten years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Jacksonville store is Wawa\u2019s fourteenth location in North Carolina. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Crowds of people came out to celebrate a popular gas station chain\u2019s grand opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,519,806,87336,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,65053],"class_list":{"0":"post-148051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-north-carolina","13":"tag-onslow-county","14":"tag-ribbon-cutting","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-wawa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115033335777642900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}