QuikTrip (QT) announced the return of its festive campaign, JollyTown, a mobile app contest filled with free gifts for customers who use the app. Every mobile order placed through Jan. 2 will receive a digital gift. Throughout the holiday season, QT is offering freebies of more than 30 in-store products to customers through the QT…

Le Bread Xpress announced this week that Macy’s has installed a custom-branded Bake Xpress robotic micro-bakery at its Westfield Valley Fair location in Santa Clara, Calif., offering shoppers convenient in-store meals and snacks. Bake Xpress micro-bakeries are unique robotic vending solutions that offer a selection of pastries, pizza and artisan sandwiches that are freshly baked…

In collaboration with Nuro, a robotics company transforming local commerce with autonomous vehicles, 7-Eleven is launching the first autonomous commercial delivery in Mountain View, Calif., enabling its customers in the service area ordering through the 7NOW delivery app to have their products delivered via bot. “7-Eleven has owned and defined convenience since 1927,” said Raghu…

Petrosoft introduced a new feature to its Scan Data solution, integrating Altria’s AGDC Price Promotions API. The new feature solves the first mile of scan data, accepting error-free price promotions and updating the c-store or other tobacco retailer’s point-of-sale (POS) within a few clicks. The first mile of tobacco promotions setup can be complicated and…

There was a time when digitizing the back office for a retailer meant installing point-of-sale (POS) units to replace cash registers. Today, the term can include nearly the full scope of operations for a store — and a chain. Art Sebastian, vice president of digital customer experience with Ankeny, Iowa-based Casey’s, which operates more than…

Circle K now offers Grabango’s “checkout-free” solution across six stores in the greater Tucson, Ariz., area. Couche-Tard Head of Global Digital Innovation Magnus Tägtström explained that his company is passionate about exploring technology that empowers store teams and helps make customers’ lives a little easier every day. “We’re looking forward to seeing Grabango’s autonomous checkout…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based holistic ordering-to-curbside pickup platform Swipeby announced it has integrated with DoorDash to give brick-and-mortar businesses, including convenience store foodservice and merchandise operations, another delivery option. The integration with DoorDash means that Swipeby operators can not only utilize Swipeby’s geofencing technology for virtual drive-through, curbside and arrival interactions, but can also now process no…

Petroleum payments solutions provider Sound Payments and Gas Pump Exchange announced a partnership that will allow fueling stations to choose Sound Easy Pump, a cost-effective EMV option, when purchasing a refurbished pump from Gas Pump Exchange or as a stand-alone product for their existing pump. “We are excited to launch this partnership with Sound Payments…

Checkout solutions provider Skip and gas station and convenience market operator Global Partners LP have announced an agreement that will bring Skip’s new self-checkout kiosk to all of Global’s 264 company-owned locations across the Northeast. The agreement comes after a successful pilot program that tested the new kiosk at select Global-owned stores. This initial trial…

Lucky Seven General Stores, a division of Edward Oil Inc., has partnered with ADD Systems (Advanced Digital Data Inc.), a leading supplier of software solutions to the convenience store and energy distribution industries, for its back-office and home-office software. Edwards Oil needed a software solution that could streamline their day-to-day operations across its chain of…