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The LAST Tom's - Tom's #8 - Shrewsbury, PA

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UPDATE (01/07/2022): The Shrewsbury Tom's has now closed, and may be replaced with a Royal Farms. History of the Tom's chain Tom's is a convenience store/gas station chain based in York, PA that once had stores throughout Central Pennsylvania. Created in 1994 by Shipley Energy as a way to distribute its gasoline, Tom's once operated 27 stores throughout Pennsylvania, namely in the York, Lancaster, and Harrisburg areas. But that number has since been reduced to one and a half. Around 2012, Shipley sold 14 of its 24 remaining Tom's stores to Sunoco, rebranding all of the stations and leaving just 10 Tom's stores in operation. Stores continued to close, until around 2015 when an Exxon in Dover, PA rebranded its gasoline pump canopy to the Tom's name (the convenience store had already been branded as a Tom's for some time before this change), marking the first Tom's opening in about eight years and the final Tom's expansion for the compa