Downtown Miami has become home to three new corner store-type 7-Elevens, a sign of growth in the area, the South Florida Business Journal reports. The new stores are smaller than a typical 7-Eleven, do not include a parking lot and focus on grab-and-go options for the increasing number of residents and workers in the downtown […]
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Sheetz Again Named A Best Place To Work In Pennsylvania
Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz Inc. has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania for the 11th year in a row. Ranked No. 16 this year, the convenience restaurant chain is the only retailer to be included among 100 top companies and is one of only three businesses ever to make the […]
Posted in, C-Store News, National
Foodservice Sales Quickly Becoming C-Stores’ Most Profitable Category
Foodservice is a key area of opportunity for convenience stores. As revenues from gasoline and tobacco products fall, foodservice sales are increasingly becoming convenience stores’ most profitable category. C-store foodservice is an $11 billion industry and the second largest retail host foodservice category behind supermarkets. The c-store segment comprises about 29 percent of retail foodservice […]
Posted in, C-Store News, Southeast
N.C.-based blu eCigs To Help Rid Wrightsville Beach Of Littered Butts
blu eCigs has teamed up with Keep New Hanover County Beautiful and InnovaGreen Systems for the second annual Great American Butt Clean event taking place on the coastline in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., on Saturday, Nov. 3. “Flicking a butt is kicking our environment’s butt because, every year, discarded cigarette butts litter our parks, sidewalks, public […]
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Expert Urges C-Stores To Take A Savvier Approach To Private Label
Well-executed branding strategies for private label products can help convenience stores set themselves apart, bolster shopper loyalty, improve price perception and, ultimately, boost their bottom lines. And yet the industry still has a long way to go when it comes to taking full advantage of private label’s powerful potential, said Todd Maute, a partner in […]
Posted in, C-Store News, Southeast
Venezia Joins The Pantry As SVP Of Operations
The Pantry Inc., a leading independently-operated convenience store chain in the southeastern United States, has announced that Joe Venezia is joining the executive leadership team as SVP of operations. Venezia joins The Pantry from TitleMax. In his new role at The Pantry, headquartered in Cary, N.C., he will lead the company’s store operations and be […]
Posted in, C-Store News, Midwest
Kum & Go Selling 22 Stores To Casey’s
Kum & Go and Casey’s General Stores Inc. have signed an asset purchase agreement for Casey’s to acquire 22 convenience stores from Kum & Go. The stores are located in Iowa, Missouri and North Dakota. “Our company is committed to carefully planned, strategic growth—that’s evidenced by the fact that we’ll open 40 new stores this […]
Posted in, Beverage News, C-Store News, Southeast
7-Eleven Acquires 76 W. Va. Locations from Prima Marketing
7-Eleven Inc. has closed a deal to acquire 74 operating convenience stores and two land parcels from Prima Marketing LLC, a 7-Eleven licensee with stores in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The bulk of the stores being purchased are in West Virginia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition includes all Prima […]
Posted in, C-Store News, National
NAM Signs Circle K Stores to In-Store Network
News America Marketing (NAM), the premier publisher of coupons in the U.S. and Canada, producing more than 165 billion coupons annually, has announced that Circle K convenience stores, one of the largest convenience store chains in North America with 3,050 U.S. locations, will be joining its expansive in-store marketing network—effective immediately. The agreement marks an […]
Posted in, C-Store News, Southeast
Couche-Tard Acquires 29 Stores in Orlando
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has signed, through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Circle K Stores Inc., an agreement to acquire 29 stores in Orlando, Fla., from Florida Oil Holdings LLC. The transaction is anticipated to close at the end of this month. The transaction is subject to standard regulatory approvals and closing conditions. According to a confidentiality […]
Posted in, C-Store News, West
7-Eleven Signs Agreement To Purchase Tetco Assets
7-Eleven Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire the retail and wholesale assets of San Antonio-based Tetco Inc. The assets include company-operated convenience stores in Utah and the Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio areas of Texas plus fuel distribution to Tetco’s wholesale-distributors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and closing is expected in […]
Posted in, C-Store News, West
Safeway Ends 3-Cent Gas Discount Offer
Safeway Inc. has ended its offer of a 3-cent-per-gallon discount on gasoline sold at pumps outside its stores to customers with Safeway loyalty cards. But the Pleasanton, Calif.-based grocer said it would continue to offer a sliding gas discount as a reward to its club-card customers based on purchases inside its stores, the Denver Business […]
Posted in, C-Store News, National
Thorntons Joins List Of Merchants Opposing Settlement With Visa, MasterCard
Thorntons Inc. is opposing the proposed settlement of longstanding antitrust litigation between retailers and the credit card industry. The proposed settlement, announced on July 13, does not make meaningful changes to the broken credit card swipe fee market and it broadly restricts merchants’ rights to challenge the card industry’s anticompetitive practices in the future, according […]
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AWMA, Merchants Grocery Co. Host FDA Plant Tour
A group of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators visited American Wholesale Marketers Association (AWMA) member Merchants Grocery Co. in Culpeper, Va., Wednesday afternoon and viewed the company’s tobacco processing operation at the invitation of AWMA and Merchants. The purpose was to help the FDA officials charged with regulating tobacco clearly understand the distributor’s role […]
Posted in, C-Store News, Southeast
McLane, Kangaroo Partner For ‘Salute Our Troops’ Campaign
McLane Co. has joined The Pantry, a leading independently operated convenience store chain in the southeastern United States, for the second annual “Salute Our Troops” campaign, inviting customers in its more than 1,600 Kangaroo Express convenience stores across 13 states to demonstrate united support for military personnel and their families. McLane Co. and Kangaroo Express, […]
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Couche-Tard Acquires 27 Stores In Eastern Washington State
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has signed, through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Circle K Stores Inc., an agreement to acquire 27 stores in Eastern Washington State primarily in the “Tri-Cities” area of Pasco, Kennewick and Richland from Sun Pacific Energy, which operates under the “Sun Mart” banner. The transaction is anticipated to close in November. The transaction […]
Posted in, C-Store News, Midwest
Speedway is Highest Ranked Convenience Store Brand in U.S.
The 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend survey has named Speedway the Highest Ranked Convenience Store Brand in the nation. With more than 25,000 consumers participating, the survey ranks brands in a variety of categories including familiarity, quality, performance and trust. Speedway has been honored as a category leader in the survey for the last three years; […]
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NACS Rejects Proposed Antitrust Settlement with Visa, MasterCard
The proposed settlement of longstanding antitrust litigation between merchants and the credit card industry was rejected by the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), a class plaintiff in the lawsuit. Because the proposed settlement does not introduce competition and transparency into the broken credit card swipe fee market, the NACS Board of Directors, comprised of […]
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Wawa’s Orlando Grand Opening Set For Wednesday
Pennsylvania retailer Wawa Inc., which first introduced itself to the Orlando, Fla., area in July 2011, plans to debut its first local store at Central Florida Parkway and International Drive near SeaWorld Orlando on July 18. And it will follow that with another four ribbon cuttings through Aug. 18, the Orlando Business Journal reports. It […]
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7-Eleven Toasts 85 Years Of Convenience With Free Slurpee Drinks
Summer and 7-Eleven® stores’ frozen Slurpee® drinks is as all-American as, well, baseball and hot dogs…the Fourth of July and cookouts…amusement parks and big box-office movies. And free Slurpee drinks? That’s a tradition that Americans have come to love as well, 7-Eleven says. Once again, 7-Eleven is celebrating its birthday on 7-Eleven Day—today, July 11; […]