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Parkland CEO ‘cautiously optimistic’ about US business
The Canadian retailer reported solid third-quarter U.S. EBITDA, which leadership credits to new supply contracts and other cost-saving measures.
By Brett Dworski • Nov. 1, 2024 -
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Nouria to acquire Enmarket, expand into the South
The deal includes Enmarket’s entire network of 132 convenience stores and 26 car washes across Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 31, 2024 -
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Top 5 stories from C-Store Dive 2023/2024
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4 c-store retailers that got buried in bankruptcy
The industry has recently seen several companies endure horror stories. To commemorate Halloween, we’re looking back at a few of them.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 31, 2024 -
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How to perfect store-level hiring and retention
Beyond increasing pay and benefits, retailers should consider new recruiting avenues, streamline applications and make sure training and onboarding serve each worker, experts say.
By Jessica Loder • Oct. 30, 2024 -
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Sheetz expands program to hire workers with disabilities
The c-store retailer is the first company in Pennsylvania to commit to a state-funded initiative that helps people with disabilities obtain competitive, integrated employment.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 30, 2024 -
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Maverik rebranding all Kum & Go stores in Oklahoma
The Sooner State wasn’t part of Maverik's previously publicized rebrand plans, which only included Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 29, 2024 -
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7-Eleven taps Chobani veteran to lead private label development
Varun Khanna’s hiring comes as the retailer looks to its proprietary brands and foodservice programs to boost its performance in North America.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 29, 2024 -
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Sponsored by Red Diamond6 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.
Oct. 28, 2024 -
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Couche-Tard names new global head of private label
Amy Jenkins, who joins from home improvement retailer Lowe’s, takes over from Rodney Blanton, who left Circle K in June for Amazon Go.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 25, 2024 -
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Column3 Big Numbers: Delving into Wawa’s growth
As the East Coast retailer prepares for its first store in Georgia, we take a look at what the future holds and why customers should take notice.
By Jessica Loder • Oct. 25, 2024 -
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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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 24, 2024 -
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7-Eleven to open over 600 stores under new design by 2027
The retailer’s newest format features “a larger product assortment and expanded food and beverage offerings,” CEO Joseph DePinto told investors on Thursday.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 24, 2024 -
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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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 24, 2024 -
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Why FEMSA’s ‘secret sauce’ is also its biggest challenge
The Mexican retailer prides itself on how it tailors each of its 23,000 c-stores to their local markets. As it enters the U.S., making that connection will be one of its most difficult tasks.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 24, 2024 -
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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.
By Jessica Loder • Oct. 23, 2024 -
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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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 23, 2024 -
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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.
By Jessica Loder • Oct. 22, 2024 -
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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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 21, 2024 -
Retrieved from Parkland.
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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 21, 2024 -
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Column3 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.
By Jessica Loder • Oct. 18, 2024 -
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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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 17, 2024 -
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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.”
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 17, 2024 -
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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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 16, 2024 -
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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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 16, 2024 -
Retrieved from Relex Solutions.
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.
By Brett Dworski • Oct. 16, 2024
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