Cumberland Farms will be offering customers a free caffeine pick-me-up on Christmas Day. From 8 a.m. to close on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, customers can stop by any of the brand’s nearly 600 store locations throughout the Northeast and Florida for a free signature Farmhouse Blend or Bold coffee, hot or iced — in any…
7-Eleven Offers Limited-Edition Holiday Slurpee
7-Eleven‘s Mountain Dew Merry Mash-Up his now available as Slurpee flavor for a limited-time, while supplies last. Mountain Dew’s refreshing mash-up of two holiday-inspired flavors — cranberry and pomegranate — was introduced last year as a soft drink, but this is the first time Merry Mash-Up is being offered in frozen Slurpee drink form at participating…
Thorntons Opens 200th Store
Thorntons recently opened two new locations in one day for a total of 200 stores in six states. The new travel centers are located in Monee, Ill., and Cicero, Ill. These openings bring the company’s total new stores in 2019 to nine, six of which opened in Illinois over the past three months. The Travel…
FDA Permits Sale of Two New Reduced-Nicotine Cigarettes
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has authorized the marketing of two new tobacco products manufactured by 22nd Century Group Inc. — Moonlight and Moonlight Menthol, which are combusted, filtered cigarettes that contain a reduced amount of nicotine compared to typical commercial cigarettes. Following a review of the premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs)…
GPM Expands Into 10 New States With Empire Acquisition
GPM Investments LLC has signed an agreement to acquire all assets of Dallas-based Empire Petroleum, which distributes motor fuel products in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeastern, Southwestern and Midwestern states. The transaction is expected to materially increase GPM’s footprint with the combined entity distributing 2.5 billion gallons of fuel annually across 2,800+ sites in 33 states and…
Weigel’s Hosts 22nd Annual Weigel’s Family Christmas
Weigel’s recently hosted its 22nd annual Weigel’s Family Christmas, bringing 238 underprivileged children from Knoxville, Tenn., and the surrounding areas and over 300 volunteers together for a Christmas shopping spree. The children range in age from five to eight years old and are each given $150 for a Christmas shopping spree at Target on Clinton…
Parkland Completes Mort Acquisition
Parkland Fuel Corp., through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries, Parkland USA, has completed the acquisition of the assets of Mort Distributing Inc. and its affiliates. Founded in 1958, Mort is a family-owned marketer and distributor of fuels and lubricants serving retail, commercial and wholesale customers. Mort’s operations are focused in Montana, which will enable Parkland…
High’s Launches Private Label Rewards and Payment Program
Baltimore-based High’s, in partnership with ZipLine, has launched loyalty and payment platform High’s Rewards and Carroll Pay at all 49 High’s locations. The program includes mobile debit payment and personalized rewards. “A growing segment of our customers prefer debit payment and expect immediate rewards,” said Noah Sanders, Sr. Analytics and Implementation Manager at High’s. “With ZipLine’s single platform…
Congress Set to Pass Tobacco 21 Law
The House of Representatives passed a $1.4 trillion spending package that includes a provision prohibiting the sale of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products to people under the age of 21. U.S. lawmakers on Monday negotiated a deal to add the provision, as well as other changes to health-care law, to the spending bill…
Nouria Energy Acquires Five New England Farms C-Stores, One Car Wash
Nouria Energy Corp. has acquired five convenience stores and one car wash from New England Farms Inc. This acquisition adds further scale to Nouria’s network and expands its geographic footprint into the important Southeastern Massachusetts market. The transaction brings the number of Nouria locations that it operates and supplies in Massachusetts to 109 locations and…