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Spinx debuts highly anticipated food market in South Carolina
The store offers a mix of standard c-store products and grocery items as well as made-to-order flatbreads, sandwiches, salads, soups and bakery items.
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6 tips to drive loyalty with coffee and tea in c-stores
As competition from QSRs intensifies, convenience stores need fresh strategies to attract foot traffic.
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Amazon, BP team up on fuel discount
Customers can connect their Amazon account to the new Earnify app, which rolled out earlier this month, for a combined 10 cents off per gallon.
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Onvo opens its biggest location yet
The East Coast retailer has debuted a nearly 10,000-square-foot travel center that will feature a hotel in 2025.
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Inside the Store: Gas Spot’s debut in Missouri
InConvenience Inc. is reviving several former Mountain Express and SQRL c-stores one by one. Here’s a peek inside its latest location, which is its first in the Show-Me State.
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7-Eleven plucks Albertsons exec to spearhead fresh food operations
Brandon Brown has been tasked with leading some of the programs that the retailer is banking on to improve its performance in North America.
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Vroom Delivery program brings retail media to smaller c-stores
The program lets the e-commerce tech company’s customers earn money from CPGs for offering “preferred” digital placement of items.
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EG America gets ‘dirty’ with soda innovation
Creative dispensed beverage concoctions are at the heart of a new marketing campaign that taps into a viral social media trend.
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Top convenience store conferences for 2025
As convenience retail leaders begin to fill out their calendars for next year, here are some major events to keep in mind.
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Casey’s Center coming in 2025
The c-store company reached an agreement with the Iowa Events Center to rename the home of three professional sports teams next summer.
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Why GetGo agreed to sell to Couche-Tard — and what happens next
GetGo had other suitors before selling for $1.6 billion to Couche-Tard, which wants to take the Pittsburgh retailer to a national — and potentially global — stage, President Terri Micklin said.
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Wawa to debut in Georgia next month
With its Bainbridge location, the c-store chain will have opened in three of a planned eight new states, with the rest launching in 2025.
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Parkland continues layoffs, will outsource IT roles in 2025
About 100 corporate roles will be eliminated as the retailer prepares to transfer its day-to-day IT responsibilities to professional services firm Accenture.
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Amazon pilots small-format grocery concept
The test store in Chicago is meant for quick fill-in grocery runs and aims to reduce the number of stops shoppers need to complete a shopping trip.
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3 Big Numbers: 7-Eleven comes under pressure
The world’s largest c-store company recently highlighted its use of AI in hiring, revealed hundreds of store closures and tempered 2024 operating income expectations.
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How 7-Eleven is combating its biggest hiring challenge
The retailer was losing candidates “left and right” because its recruitment process was too slow, according to its senior director of talent acquisition. Then it brought AI into the fold.
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Phillips 66 to lay off 600 employees
The fuel company will close its refinery near Los Angeles, where all 600 workers plus 300 contractors are employed, in Q4 2025.
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Seven & i should engage with Couche-Tard ‘without delay,’ investor says
Artisan Partners also criticized Seven & i’s plan to turn its supermarkets and specialty stores division into a separate company, calling the move “too little too late.”
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Gelson’s debuts ‘premium’ c-store concept
The company’s first ReCharge site includes 40 electric vehicle chargers and fresh foods like sushi and charcuterie.
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4 tips to help c-stores grow holiday candy sales
Convenience retailers typically cede ground in the key category as the end of the year nears. But they’re missing out on clear opportunities, experts say.
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Foxtrot relaunches delivery, will reopen third location this week
Restoring e-commerce services marks the beginning of a return to form for Foxtrot after a tumultuous past several months.
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FEMSA to divest logistics assets as it gears up for c-store expansion
The deal helps the company — parent of the Oxxo brand — focus more on its retail operations in the U.S., where it recently acquired Delek’s 249 sites.
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At NACS, retailers spoke loud and clear: Hiring and retention tactics need a facelift.
Labor challenges dominated the conversation at last week’s expo in Las Vegas. Here’s how 7-Eleven, TXB, Spinx and others are evolving their workforce practices.
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7-Eleven CEO addresses financial pitfalls in North America
Joseph DePinto said in a presentation that price-conscious consumers, declining cigarette sales and weaker-than-expected fuel gross profits all contributed to its soft recent performance.
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7-Eleven shuttering 444 North American stores amid strategic pivot
The retailer also aims to generate $520 million through sale-leasebacks of an undisclosed number of stores as its parent company slashes its profit forecast and spins off non-core segments.
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TravelCenters of America names new chief information officer
Murtaza Sitabkhan moves into the position after 15 years in various technology and supply chain leadership positions with TA’s parent company, BP.