John Audia had no idea how much theft and clerical mistakes were happening at the checkouts at his Sunriver supermarket near Bend, Oregon, until he implemented technology that caught all of it on video. He had a cashier prosecuted after the video revealed her giving away groceries “left and right” to customers and employees. Since […]
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Earth Fare Opens 10th North Carolina Store In Concord
Asheville, North Carolina-based Earth Fare added another store to its home-state roster June 28 as it opened a new location in Concord. The unit, at 8885 Christenbury Parkway, marks the 10th store in the Tar Heel State for the speciality grocer; it’s the company’s fifth greater Charlotte-area location. In addition to groceries, the store features Earth […]
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Lubel Departs CST Brands As Couche-Tard Deal Finalized
Alimentation Couche-Tard finalized its $4.4 billion merger with San Antonio, Texas-based CST Brands on June 28, the same day CST Brands Chairman, President & CEO Kim Lubel confirmed her departure from the company. “Today I say goodbye to the great CST team members that make CST strong. How lucky I am to have something that […]
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QuikTrip Entering New Texas Market With First Stores Opening Next Summer
For the first time in six years, convenience store chain QuikTrip (QT) is expanding into a new market—San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The first QT stores in each city are expected to open in summer 2018, the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company said this week. QT has operated in the Dallas-Fort Worth market since 1999 and currently has […]
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New Agreement Calls For Walgreens To Buy Half Of Rite Aid’s Stores
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is expected to purchase about half of Rite Aid’s stores as part of a new merger agreement announced Thursday. The proposed deal will give Walgreens 2,186 Rite Aid units for approximately $5.2 billion vs. Rite Aid’s full store fleet of nearly 4,600 that Walgreens said it intended to purchase in an original agreement announced in October 2015. […]
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Raley’s New Ground-Up Store Makes Debut In Rancho Cordova
Raley’s on Wednesday opened a new ground-up store at the corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Douglas Road in Rancho Cordova, California. The 40,000-s.f. unit offers fresh and healthy products in a format tailored to complement the local community, according to the West Sacramento-based grocery chain. It marks the second new store Raley’s has opened in […]
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NACS Partners With The American Red Cross
The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) and the American Red Cross are teaming up to advance community giving and disaster relief programs for NACS member companies. NACS is the first retail-focused association to partner with the American Red Cross on such a program. The groups are focusing on developing resources to facilitate donation collection by convenience store […]
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Food Lion Ranked Among Points Of Light’s Civic 50
Points of Light, an organization dedicated to volunteer service, recently released its Civic 50 list, highlighting companies that are examples of good corporate citizenship. Salisbury, North Carolina-based Food Lion was the sole retailer on the list, which was announced at the Points of Light Conference on Volunteering and Service in Seattle, Washington. “Food Lion is […]