As a family- and associate-owned, privately held company, Wawa is one of the largest in the convenience retail industry, serving millions of people a day. The company has a unique company culture and is known for a wide variety of freshly prepared food and beverages available around the clock.
Wawa associates create strong connections with their customers and communities, resulting in a unique family-like bond that feels more like family than a transaction. That has resulted in Wawa becoming deeply embedded in the hearts and daily lives of a diehard customer base (aka Eagles fans, among others). Always open, even in shore towns that otherwise shutter for winter, Wawa delivers comfort, consistency, and arguably one of the best meatball hoagies in the world (Not that we’re biased. Okay, we’re biased).
The family owned-company was originally established as a dairy farm and processing plant in 1902, owned and operated by George Wood in Wawa, Pennsylvania. By 1964, Wood’s grandson Grahame opened the first official Wawa store to sell the family’s dairy products. To date, Wawa has opened almost 1,000 stores and employs over 45,000 associates across portions of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Today, the company is focused on preserving its people-first culture while growing not just in locations, but in services to provide customers with more personal choices, more touchpoints and more options than ever before.
Beyond its bright, warm and welcoming stores exists an equally vibrant, fast-paced Wawa headquarters serving up fresh, innovative ideas for the brand’s digital transformation. Through a new, cutting-edge, fully-automated digital platform, Wawa technologists are busy creating a customer experience defined as “boundless convenience.”
With the platform already up and running in its early stages, the next ingredient for its success is to build out a bang-up team of talented technologists. The company seeks passionate people of all levels who crave hands-on, back-end coding experiences and the coveted opportunity to build something meaningful from scratch using the latest technologies.
You can find Wawa’s Corporate Campus in the very same place it all began: Wawa, PA (near Media). Corporate’s 800 employees even attend work events at the Wood family’s original brick mansion, mere steps away from the office. And for those wondering, the answer is yes: You will have unlimited access to Wawa coffee. It’s as close to living in a Wawa as it gets. Which, in addition to working here, is a completely respectable life goal.
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For more on Wawa’s approach to digital innovation, check out the video below. This video was first published on fastcompany.com and in partnership with EY and Fast Company. Learn more here.