Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is planning to open eight stores in Northern California-including in the San Francisco Bay Area and Modesto, in early 2011. These stores, will the company’s first stores north of Fresno and will create about 160 jobs in the region, bringing access to fresh, wholesome food at affordable prices to new…
Love’s Opens Five Chester’s
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is opening five new Chester’s locations at its stores. The fried chicken foodservice offering is set to appear at Love’s locations in Corning, Calif., Tacoma, Wash., Des Moines (Clive), Iowa, Oak Creek, Wis., and Gary, Ind. Following the merger of Flying J Inc. and Pilot Travel Centers LLC, the…
Sheetz Opens Haynes Street Store
Sheetz opened a new store yesterday on Haynes Street in Johnstown, Pa., but motorists will have to wait a while to service their cars at the new gas station. The store still has to have new underground tanks installed before its gas business can be up and running, a process that is expected to…
Phoenix 7-Eleven Adds Transit Cards
C-stores in the Phoenix, Ariz., metropolitan area are about to get even more convenient now that the 60 local 7-Eleven stores are selling all day and reduced all day passes for the Valley Metro-the transit system for the greater Phoenix area, ABC15 News reported. “Our goal is to make it as easy and convenient as…
Kum & Go Features E85 Promotion
To start off the Iowa Corn Indy 250 race weekend the Kum & Go station at 2110 Guthrie Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa featured an E85 promotion and a two-hour appearance and autograph signing by race car driver Marco Andretti. On Thursday, June 17 from 5:30p.m. to 7:30 p.m. customers that visited the Kum &…
Wawa Ventures North In New Jersey
Wawa with many locations in southern New Jersey, is heading north to Morris County where it will compete directly with Quick Chek and 7-Eleven, The Daily Record reported. Wawa plans to build and open its first Morris County store in mid- to late November at the corner of New and Edwards roads in the eastern…
Tedeschi Remodels Stores
At a time when many retailers are cutting back on spending, Tedeschi Food Shops is aggressively reinvesting in renovations of its convenience store locations. Recently, 23 locations, including stores in North Weymouth, Chelmsford, Billerica, Westford and Needham have undergone major remodels at an average cost of $250,000 per store in an effort to offer more…
Sheetz Opens Store In Woodward
Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz continues to expand with the opening of its first new store in Woodward Township, near Jersey Shore. “We are very excited to be opening another store in Lycoming County,” said Stan Sheetz, president and CEO, Sheetz Inc. “Our stores in nearby Williamsport do very well and customers there have been very…
7-Eleven Expands In Long Island
7-Eleven has added its 194th c-store on Long Island and signed with real estate brokers C.B. Richard Ellis with expectations of opening more, Long Island Business News reported. The new 2,950-square-foot 7-Eleven is located on the Jericho Turnpike. The Dallas-based retailer has plans to open 180 stores on Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, Gregg…
Quick Chek Grows In New Jersey
Quick Chek, which operates more than 120 locations in New Jersey and southern New York, is set to open its newest store in Dayton, N.J. Located at 2432 Route 130, the new store will open to the public Tuesday, May 18 at 5 a.m., following a special Quick Chek Coffee Toast ceremony Monday, April 17…