Save-A-Lot, one of the nation’s leading hard discount, limited assortment grocery chains and a wholly owned subsidiary of Supervalu, announces that T.W.F. Holding Co. Inc. will open a new Save-A-Lot store in Wabash, Ind., today. The new Wabash Save-A-Lot store is located at 950 Cass St. Local leaders present for the ceremony this morning included […]
Category: Store News
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, Corporate Store News, Midwest
Meijer Opens New Marketplace Store In Chicago’s Berwyn Community
Nearly one year after launching its first new format store in the Chicago market, Meijer Marketplace, Meijer delivers another new store to its Chicago-area customers as it officially cuts the ribbon on Meijer Marketplace Berwyn, located in Cermak Plaza. “We are very pleased to continue our growth in Chicagoland,” said Hank Meijer, co-chairman of the […]
Posted in, Corporate Store News, Southwest
Sprouts, Sunflower Donate $100K To Aurora Victim Relief Fund
Sprouts Farmers Market and Sunflower Farmers Market have donated $100,000 to the Aurora Victim Relief Fund to benefit the immediate and long-term needs of victims of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., in July. The large contribution represents proceeds of the sale of excess equipment from Sprouts’ recent merger with Sunflower Farmers Market. Sprouts Farmers […]
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 […]
Posted in, Corporate Store News, Southeast
Publix Super Markets Raises $2.5M For CMN Hospitals
Publix Super Markets customers and associates once again showed their immense support for local sick and injured children during the annual Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in-store fundraiser. This year’s campaign raised $2,507,029, a record-breaking amount and 25 percent increase over 2011 totals. Funds generated from the May 26 –June 16 campaign will directly benefit 19 […]