Jacksons Food Stores Inc. announced its giving campaign benefiting Boys & Girls Club of America — Pathways to Potential — where shoppers can make a donation at the time of purchase benefiting their neighborhood Clubs. The family-owned retailer raised a quarter of a million dollars for in-market Clubs in 2021. “We continue to support Boys…

MAPCO recently celebrated the grand opening of its newest store in Huntsville, Ala., located at 801 Governors Dr. SW.  As part of the grand opening ceremonies, MAPCO unveiled on-site “Fueling Our Future”-dedicated gas pumps benefiting the students at Huntsville High School. The pumps are available now through Jan. 13, 2023 — with MAPCO donating 25 cents…

QuikTrip (QT) recently opened its new remote travel center in Brunswick, Ga. The retailer also opened two other travel center locations in Opelika, Ala.; and West Monroe, La., making this the 10th travel center location to open across the country this year. The first customers were greeted on the opening day of business on Dec.…

The 2023 National Advisory Group (NAG) Conference, set for March 26-29 in Austin, Texas, announced its lineup of sessions and speakers. One of these informative sessions will focus on foodservice forecasting, covering how customers currently purchase food, what they are looking for and what the convenience store industry can expect over the next three years.…

C-store retailers are investing in their coffee bars, upgrading equipment and cross merchandising to recapture sales, which declined during COVID-19. Those efforts appear to be paying off for c-store operators. In its fall “2022 National Coffee Data Trends” report, the National Coffee Association (NCA) stated that while out-of-home coffee consumption has yet to fully recover…

SurgePays recently conducted a survey focusing on the underbanked and underserved communities looking at consumers’ perspectives and attitudes toward independent local convenience stores. According to the survey, American consumers regard their local, independent convenience stores and bodegas in near unanimous high regard, with 94% of them calling the stores somewhat important (34%), very important (34%)…

MAPCO has opened its first Grabango-powered checkout-free store in Brentwood, Tenn. Grabango lets shoppers save time and skip the line with one-second checkout. MAPCO is the most recent in a string of innovative retailers to introduce checkout-free shopping for its customers. “We’re excited to offer this game-changing checkout-free technology at our Brentwood location,” said Frederic…

Thorntons opened its newest Ohio store — and the first in Symmes Township — on Dec. 13, with a grand open and ribbon-cutting ceremony planned for Dec. 16. The company now operates a total of 17 stores in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. This new 4,400-square-foot facility is set on 1.5 acres and features a number…

Des Moines, Iowa-based Kum & Go announced it will open the doors to its first store in the Salt Lake City market on Monday, Dec. 19. It will be celebrating with a grand opening scheduled from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. MT. The Draper, Utah, store is the first of several Salt Lake City-area Kum…

Paytronix recently released a data brief showing how convenience store and restaurant loyalty program members are continuing to shop despite prices continuing to rise. According to its previously released 2022 Loyalty Report, 55% of restaurant loyalty customers increased their average check size by more than the cost of menu items, indicating that inflation increased loyalty…