“In a business like cigars, where unit volume is growing 10% plus year-over-year, emerging strategic thinking in convenience retail suggests that retailers can grow even faster by employing a “price-for-volume” […]
The convenience store front counter provides the perfect canvas to showcase a mix of hot new items and profitable impulse buys that will grab customers’ attention. But experts agree that […]
RICHARD ONESLAGER, PRESIDENT of Firsthand Management LLC, the retail operating arm of Balmar Petroleum, a petroleum fuels distributing company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., has finalized a deal with 7-Eleven Inc. […]
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS-BASED SUSSER HOLDINGS, operator of 330 convenience stores in Texas and Oklahoma under the Stripes banner, is in the process of acquiring San Angelo, Texas-based Town & Country […]
KUM & GO IS ASKING customers to “Taste the Difference” with Java Ridge—the company’s new premium coffee line, which was introduced at its more than 450 c-stores in 13 states. […]
WISE, VA.-BASED DOUBLE KWIK Markets has entered into plans to sell its 57 convenience locations to Mechanicsville, Va.-based GPM Investments. GPM plans to convert the entire Double Kwik chain to […]
Green H. Oil Co.’s five company operated stores kicked off its main fundraiser of the year—The Empty Stocking Fund— by collecting $3,000 in just 10 days. According to Green Oil’s […]
Pay by Touch founder and CEO files for personal bankruptcy, facing a backlash from investors and employees. Just two weeks ago, Convenience Store Decisions reported that Shell Oil became the […]
Shell announced that it is removing the multi-site operation model from the U.S. going forward. What does this mean to the company and Big Oil as a whole? Shell Oil […]
Generation Image Renewal program calls for the renovation of the chain’s 1,600 convenience stores and the addition of 550 more. Cenex, the convenience-retailing brand of CHS Inc., islaunching a multimillion-dollar […]