America has been a car culture since long before the pandemic, but the past two years have cemented that status. At a time when many consumers couldn’t go into stores and restaurants, they relied on their cars to pick up meals and groceries at unprecedented rates — or used third-party delivery drivers to do it…
5 Healthy Opportunities for C-Stores
A few months ago, as part of Datassential’s “2021 Midyear Trend Report,” we asked consumers a wide variety of questions about their planned behaviors and attitudes, particularly as operators across the country opened again and consumers started to get back to some sense of normalcy. One of the questions we asked was whether they planned…
Five Foodservice Opportunities for C-Stores
Convenience stores have certainly upped their foodservice game over the past decade, and consumers have taken notice. According to Datassential’s recent “C-Store Foodservice Keynote Report,” a third of consumers reported that they have increased their food purchases at c-stores in the past two years, while nearly 40% said the same thing about beverages. Overall, 62%…