I don't believe that I've ever bothered to review a gas station before, but I feel that I have to warn people to stay away from this one. It is absolutely the worst major brand gas station that I've had the displeasure and misfortune to use. And actually, I had been warned online to stay away from here as it is notorious on the NextDoor App for having poor service.
Even though it is only a few blocks from where I live, I have avoided this station, mostly because it is overpriced and there are other gas stations in the vicinity that have Top Tier gas (Google it if you are unfamiliar with the term) and friendlier service. In the 5 years that I've lived in this neighborhood, I've only been to the station a handful of times to use the car wash. And I stopped going there several years ago when I realized that my car was almost as dirty after going through the wash as it was beforehand!
I normally go to a hand wash auto detailing center, but it was absolutely packed this past Saturday and my car was filthy, so I broke down and decided to use the automated brushless wash at this Chevron. Even though I didn't need any gas since my tank was almost full, I topped it off anyway just so I could purchase the car wash at the gas pump itself rather than try to do so at the car wash entrance (which has been a problem in the past).
Unfortunately, after selecting the car wash and pumping the gas, when I put the hose back and pressed the button for a receipt, I received the dreaded message that I needed to go inside and get it from the clerk. As my review is getting pretty long already, suffice it to say that even though there was only one person in front of me at each of the two clerk stations inside, there were still those same two people standing there with the clerks making coffee and conversing with them 10 minutes later. I finally lost my temper a bit and in a loud voice pleaded with the two clerks that all I wanted was my receipt. One completely ignored me (which, if you read NextDoor, is par for the course), but fortunately, the other clerk broke away from his conversation with the person in front of me, and handed me my receipt so that I could then drive around the back to the car wash and enter the code that was printed on the receipt. I then went through the wash without incident.
And of course, when I got home to my driveway and got out of my car, I could see that it was only somewhat cleaner than it was before. The entire trip to the Chevron station had been a colossal waste of time. read more