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Wawa paid $170,000 for an expired license in Bucks County. The Delaware County-based convenience store chain plans to add a beer cooler section like the one at its new Fairless Hills store to another of its Bucks County stores, but has not yet said which store will receive the newly acquired liquor license.

Liquor licenses in Pennsylvania are not cheap.

The convenience store chain emerged as the winner of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s auction for two expired restaurant liquor licenses this week.

A license in Bucks County cost $170,000.

A second license for Delaware County was purchased for $300,000, double the average high bid, writes Mike Newall for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The two licenses were part of a package of 20 licenses that were up for auction.

Wawa did not announce which Bucks County store would be next to sell beer.

Two Wawas in Bucks County currently sell beer, and the chain has a total of 24 stores throughout Pennsylvania that sell beer, said Lori Bruce, a company spokeswoman.

In Pennsylvania, take-out beer is allowed as long as you have a license from the PLCB.

In 2021, Wawa had only one store that sold beer. It was called the “Stadium Store” because it was located about two miles from the South Philly Sports Complex in Philadelphia.

The store has a walk-in beer fridge called the “Beer Cave.”

Wawa now has two weeks to pay for the licenses and six months to submit a Pennsylvania license application.

For more information about a Wawa liquor license in Bucks County, visit the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Damien Colletti Cinema takes a look at the beer section of the Fairless Hills Wawa.

Editor’s note: This post first appeared on BUCKSCO Today in October 2023.