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Arco AM/PM
Categories: Automotive Gas & Service Stations Food Convenience Stores Gas & Service Stations, Convenience Stores [Edit]
504 Whipple AveRedwood City, CA 94063
(650) 369-1099
6 reviews for Arco AM/PM
6 reviews in English
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Review from Vb L.
4/11/2012 1 Check-in Here
My go-to gas station was closed (oops!) and I had to move on down the road looking for fuel. I happened to remember this Arco was just off of 101 and pulled in to find some cheap gas. Fast, easy and on my way - totally did the trick! Don't like that they charge 35 cents for using an ATM card and they don't take Amex, but they were there for me when I needed them.
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Review from Patricia V.
Mountain View, CA
OMG, after seeing a price of $4.95 a gallon in another location not far from here on Harbor Blvd., $4.27 at this place was a welcomed relief.
It was crazy trying to get out of this station in the middle of the afternoon and merge back on to the road way that would take me to the freeway. Wild ride, its alright. -
Review from Julie N.
3/22/2011
Doesn't take credit card, but there are NO SIGNS.
Clean, spacious bathroom inside the convenience store though =) -
Review from Jonathan JayLando D.
San Francisco, CA
7/26/2007
I do not know if this is a review as much as it is sharing my experience going here this morning. I go to this gas stop all the time and since it is early enough [I go get gas on the way to work] it is always really easy to reach an empty station. There is nothing spectacular about this place except their might be a panhandling problem. This is not about that though, this is about my morning there. This is my story...
Today was a funny sort of morning. I need gas about once a week and I always go to the same place. I get off in the morning on the way to work on the Whipple exit southbound and stop at the Arco. I do this all the time.
Last week I was there and this guy came up to me and told me his sob story about how he and his sister were heading up to San Francisco or something and they needed gas. He had the pathetic and sad-sack look on his face and I was more than sympathetic to his plight. I spoke to him and I did not feel like "filling him up" or anything so I gave him the cash I had. All I had was like five dollars or so on me so I felt bad that was all I could give him.
Last week I actually felt bad for not being able to help more and nearly got out of my car once I started it to actually pay for his thing. I did not but I spent the morning thinking about my charity and my giving ; or in this case, my lack of charity and giving. I was dirty because I skipped my shower for the extra few minutes of sleep and I had not shaved in two weeks because of all the overtime I had to put in at work. Why this might matter I will get to now.
So this morning I am back at the same station pumping the same gas and in front of me I see that guy again. He is asking the guy in front of me filling up his truck for the same thing with the same face and the same hang-dog expression! I look at him incredulously. What is his boggle? Why is he swindling people? Is he a local homeless/drug addict/vagabond? Either way he is a liar, a con and a cad.
As I am thinking this, my hair still wet from washing and my face shaved and smooth, along he comes to me after being turned down and makes the same case to me. I mean the SAME CASE! He said the same things and had the same look as he did to the other guy and as he did to me the week before. I wondered if he could not remember me or if he could not recognise me... he looked at me nonetheless, eyes pleading for help.
I looked him right in the eye and said, "You did this last week." I was calm and controlled, stating it as fact and not a question or an accusation. Instantly his face turned into a half-scowl and he walked off without a word. He had done this so much and had been rejected and accused of repeat accosting enough times that it did not phase him. Was he a pro or something? He went to the next island of people as if nothing.
The guy pumping gas in front said, "Oldest trick in the book, eh?" but I could not answer. I just dumbly nodded at him. As the odd feelings of the previous encounter still swirled around me I turned around to see a older black man beginning to speak to me. "Excuse me," he said in a rasp of age and defeat, "...I do not want any money from you I just need gas to get back home." I looked at him. He looked sincere and he wanted help and I wanted to give it but I could not.
So fresh were the feelings of betrayal from before that I dismissed him. If he was sincere then it was bad timing and if not, no harm done I guess. It then really bugged me that this other dude made me question my faith in people even for a moment. I am actually angry at him. I do not know his story and I do not know what he was thinking or doing there but it still bummed me out. I do not want to process these heady thoughts on my way to work.
The man in front of me said something smarmy like, "I did not know gas didn't cost money..." I know decor would have been to acknowledge him but I just stood there blankly staring and when the gas stopped flowing I got in my car and finished my trip to work. I just do not know how I feel about all this.
... So that was my morning. I wonder if I will ever see them again. Does anyone else ever have to deal with these people? Does anyone know who or why they are what they are and do what they do?
This is not going to keep me from coming but it does make me feel odd about the whole situation. -
Review from beth c.
Redwood City, CA
9/3/2011
Had the best Energy Drink there! Was called Liquid Nitro! I am hooked, blows Red Bull and the rest away
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Review from Joao B.
Daly City, CA
7/20/2008
The only reason why I go to this Gas Station is for the nice crushed ice and the drinks.
