Rotten Robbie partnered with FreeWire Technologies to provide customers with electric vehicle (EV) charging at Rotten Robbie’s San Jose, Calif., location. The deployment is Rotten Robbie’s first EV charger, and Silicon Valley’s first publicly accessible Boost Charger, FreeWire’s battery-integrated ultrafast charger. Rotten Robbie, a family-owned business operating for over eight decades, recognized the opportunity to…

Newton, Mass.-based digital guest experience platform Paytronix Systems Inc. published the latest report in its ongoing series “The Digital Divide: Delivery Service Aggregators and The Digital Shift,” a PYMNTS and Paytronix collaboration. The report highlights how ease-of-use, convenience are the top drivers when consumers make restaurant purchasing decisions. What’s more, even in on-premises situations, restaurants…

Street Corner may not be the new kid on the block — it first entered the market in the mid-1980s — but the chain’s reinvention post-pandemic positions it as a cutting-edge, modern c-store business. With a new CEO at the wheel, Street Corner recently debuted a revamped foodservice menu and is aggressively rolling out three…

If COVID-19 weren’t challenging enough for convenience retailers, the start of the pandemic saw an increase in crime, said Sean Sportun, a security expert who’s spent almost 18 years in the convenience store world, 15 of which were with Circle K, leading the company’s Central Canada Loss Prevention Department. “People, it seemed, felt very comfortable…

Nearly two-thirds of US adults agree that the pandemic has made them reevaluate their life priorities, according to Mintel research on American values. In food and drink, U.S. adults say the pandemic caused the most change in where they eat, how they grocery shop and how they approach their diets. Many of these new habits…

Success Systems has created the industry’s only artificially intelligent solution that allows all retailers to convert paper invoices into EDI ones in seconds — ItScans-AI. Retailers simply take a picture or scan an invoice using the app and ItsScans-AI will have it converted in an EDI format. ItScans-AI is compatible with most all back-office software. […]

Jacksonville, Fla.-based digital fuel payment and forecourt consultants Sound Payments recently announced a new promotion to help encourage independent stations to upgrade their pumps to accept EMV/chip cards and prevent fraudulent activity. The promotion also works in conjunction with station marketers, servicers and resellers, and provides 50% off installation costs. “Station owners are busy, multitaskers…

Foxtrot announced it received $100 million in Series C funding, led by D1 Capital Partners with continued participation from existing investors Monogram, Imaginary, Almanac, Wittington, Fifth Wall and Beliade and joined historical investors Lerer Hippeau and Revolution. The Series C brings total funding to $160 million. Founded by Mike LaVitola and Taylor Bloom in 2014,…

Love’s Travel Stops announced plans to open more than 40 locations and add more than 3,000 truck parking spaces and 3,000 jobs in 2022. The announcement follows a challenging but successful 2021. The company opened 38 new locations, added over 3,000 truck parking spaces and donated several million dollars to support its core customer —…

GPM Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of ARKO Corp., announced the reinstallation of its skill gaming terminals in 65 fas mart, Apple Market and Roadrunner Markets stores. GPM’s skill gaming terminals were introduced in the summer of 2019 but were put on hold last year due to evolving legislation in electronic skill gaming. The gaming…