Where are you and what is the local independent gas station chain called?
Note: looking for chains, so no one-off mom-and-pops; they should have at least 2 locations.
I’m in Hyattsville, Maryland and very locally there’s Red Top with three locations I’m aware of, and peppered throughout Maryland are Free State gas stations.
I’m in central Ohio and I can’t immediately think of any. There used to be one called Duke, but its owner is now a BP franchisee. The convenience stores are still Duchess Shoppes, though, and even years after the switch you still hear people call them “Duke and Duchess.”
Irving, based in New Brunswick with locations throughout New England and eastern Canada.
C. N. Brown (doing business as Big Apple), based in Maine with locations there and in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Cumberland Farms. Based in Massachusetts, with locations throughout the Northeast, concentrated in New England. They formerly owned the rights to use the Gulf trademark in the Northeast, but they were never part of the Gulf Oil company.
There are a couple of independent stations around me, but as far as I can tell none of them are chains. I thought Kangaroo Express might be one but apparently it’s part of the Circle K brand family.