According to a nationwide survey conducted by The Harris Poll and commissioned by General Mills Foodservice, more than one in four Americans (28%) are eating more baked goods as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past six months. Items such as cookies (57%), bread (50%) and cake (42%) top the list of baked goods Americans…
Creating a Strategic Business Plan Amid COVID-19
Business planning in any environment is important, but add in the myriad of challenges brought by the current COVID-19 pandemic, and strategic business planning becomes even more essential for convenience stores looking to succeed in this uncertain landscape. So, why is business planning so crucial? In a word, it provides clarity. Investing time in developing…
7-Eleven Expands Delivery Options Through Uber Eats, Grubhub and Instacart
7-Eleven announced that it’s added three of the largest U.S. ordering platforms — Uber Eats, Grubhub and Instacart — to its delivery portfolio. Users of these platforms now have access to the thousands of products found on 7-Eleven shelves. Milk, bread and eggs, pizza with a Slurpee drink, sandwiches and some 7-Select chips, coffee and…
Hands-Free Toilet Seat Cover Dispensing System
Hospeco Brands Group’s signature Evogen NT is the first and only hands-free toilet seat cover dispensing system. With Evogen, all seat covers are kept clean inside the dispenser — and, with a wave of the hand, a single cover is dispensed automatically. The seat cover is presented from the dispenser fully open and ready to […]
Love’s Donates Laptops to Local School
Oklahoma City-based Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is donating 40 laptop computers to Crooked Oak High School in Oklahoma City. The donation coincides with the Employer Laptop Challenge from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Schools need additional computers to overcome challenges created by COVID-19. With schools adopting virtual learning formats to keep…
AAA: Americans Planning Fall Travel With Cautious Optimism
According to a recent AAA Travel survey, American travelers are making vacation plans through the end of the year, but remain cautiously optimistic about those future plans. Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults planning a vacation before the end of the year report some degree of uncertainty, they will actually be able to take their…
H&S Energy to Host Pop-Up COVID-19 Testing Sites
H&S Energy, which operates over 100 convenience and gas locations throughout Northern and Southern California, has partnered with QuestCap Inc. and its subsidiary, Collection Sites, to roll out a network of pop-up COVID-19 testing sites at 15 H&S Energy locations. The collection sites are powered by Alcala Testing and Analysis Services, a CLIA licensed and…
Face Shield
ZShield is the only shield on the market that clasps at the neck, providing individuals a more comfortable personal protective equipment (PPE) solution that can be worn all day. ZShields are made by, ZVerse, a South Carolina-based 3D printing software company that quickly pivoted to becoming a critical supplier of PPE, producing hundreds of thousands […]
Dover Fueling Solutions Invests in UVC Technology
Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), a part of Dover Corporation that delivers advanced fuel dispensing equipment, electronic systems and payment, fleet systems, automatic tank gauging and wetstock management, announced that it has recently taken delivery of a THOR UVC disinfecting robot in a bid to help prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 at its facility…
Wills Group Raises Over $153,000 at Fourth Annual Blackie Wills Golf Classic
Dash In’s parent company, La Plata, Md.-based Wills Group, raised more than $153,000 in support of the Blackie Wills Community Leadership Fund at its fourth annual Blackie Wills Golf Classic event. This year’s Golf Classic, held on Sept. 14, took place at Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City, Md. To ensure the health and well-being…