Thanks to Ian for the tip. The pumps are closed and the mini-mart shelves are bare at Morgan Junction’s only gas station/mini-mart (6540 California SW). According to city permit files, a branding change is imminent – currently it’s Shell, but a sign company has just been granted a permit to install Mobil signage. How soon that’ll happen, we don’t know, but the permit issued this past Monday lists an estimated installation date of March 6th.
Hopefully new ownership. This place should be a great convenience store, instead it’s dirty and smelly. I wish I had the money to buy it so we could have a good convenience store in the area. The 76 on Fauntleroy (by Taquitos Feliz) is pretty good.
New ownership would be swell. I wonder if the story above has any details?
Well, we don’t know if the ownership is changing. All we know for sure is that the branding is. The strip mall itself (which also includes Domino’s and New Teriyaki & Wok) was up for sale in 2010 but property records show it didn’t change hands.
We stopped in the gas station just a few days ago and the owner told us he was retiring and they would no longer be in business.
The owner here is so rude and the place is filthy with weird inventory so I’m grateful something else is coming, I will go there for gas and other things – I’d assume it will be much better.
I went to purchase Diet Coke out of his refrigerator section. He refused to sell to me – claimed it was expired. Why have it available for purchase then? That’s when I suspected something was up there. Less than a week later the caution tape went up.
Yes. They had a nice large parking lot up high on 42nd Ave. behind the store. It was the first place ever I shopped for clothes on my own as a teenager.
Cynicism has really broken our brains collectively. Now everything has to have some snide remark, geeze.
It would be nice to see gas prices that aren’t .50-.75 cents a gallon more than many of the other gas stations around!
I don’t know what I would buy at such a place where it’s a convenient store and gas. I have not stepped foot in any such place region wide for awhile. I could maybe count on one hand the times in the last 5 yrs or more! Maybe however it’s time to revisit.
Dear Holier than thou, I mean NW,I don’t know how this comment is helpful other than to pass judgement on those who use convenient stores, but thanks for the statement. You must be super fun.
Looks like I’ll have to look elsewhere to use my QFC/Freddy’s fuel points. The station at Delridge & Orchard used to be a Shell too.
The Shell station at 15th & 107th (just east of Ambaum) has much lower prices than the Shell on Delridge – well worth the short drive and if you have 1.00 in points, a great deal.
There’s also a Shell station at 26th and Roxbury. Not sure how their prices compare though.
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