“I visited this store once again a couple of weeks ago. I went for gas and lottery tickets. To my surprise Mary was there working. I asked her if she ever received a message complimenting here work from her boss and Google? She said no. I told her I was there a few months before and gave it a review. So, I went to my car and went to my Google reviews. I looked for my review, and I went back in the store and showed it to her. She was so surprised and said that I made her day. She really deserved it.”
“Can’t complain. The quality and speed of service at the pharmacy for a constantly very busy team is exemplary. Sometimes they are impacted by National medicine shortages for specific controlled substances but communicate well and are accommodating.”
“I guess if you check into this place enough, you can become the Duchess of the Duchess Shoppe. Fun times. This is the convenience store attached to a pretty cheap gas station on the Northside of Columbus just half a minute off of the interstate that loops around Columbus. They usually has cheap gas and it's a big spacious brand new convenience store with some decent water and decent bathrooms and the guy working here is fine. This gas station kind of let me down because I did the credit card and I had everything ready to go only to find out that the pump was disconnected. Yes it processed my credit card and told me to start fueling only for me to discover that the handle was hanging off and the pump wrapped up in a plastic bag and not connected to the actual talk. Once I moved to a different pump things went fine and it was one of the cheapest gas stations in the area which I appreciated. They sell some pretty good spring water at a decent price so I picked up one of those. They have a bathroom which isn't particularly awful so that helped as well. I made a singing video in there and all is well that ends well. Then I drove to Buffalo. Directly. Stopping only to pee out the water that I bought here. TMI.”
“I didn’t go in the duchess, but five stars for the gas pump. Came out fast as hell and there was a place to tap a card so I could use apple pay which was convenient.”
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