OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.– Convenience Store Products launched a new website—CStoreProductsOnline.com— this week, giving c-store retailers unprecedented access to the newest products in the industry, a detailed suppliers guide and insight into product trends.
CSProducts magazine editor-in-chief Abbey Lewis issued this letter to introduce readers to the new site:
All of the sandwiches. All the doughnuts and Danishes. Every coconut water, energy drink and coffee flavor. Every cigarette, cigar and e-cig we have on file.
If we’ve covered them, they’re here—every single last one of them.
Welcome to CStoreProductsOnline.com, the culmination of years of cataloging and reporting on products for the convenience-store industry. This real-time extension of Convenience Store Products isn’t just a reboot of our print magazine—it’s an incredibly useful tool.
Ever been on Amazon.com? Of course you have, and therefore you’ll appreciate our intricate, interactive search capabilities, designed to help you find what you’re looking for with a single click. We don’t make you sift through screen after screen of products and suppliers (unless you want to); rather, our customized search function allows you to drill down to the most minute detail. Looking for a new candy for Halloween? That’s under Confection>Novelty and Seasonal Candy. On the hunt for a new fryer? Click on Foodservice Equipment>Fryers.
Care about products, but want to see all the suppliers and articles related to novelty candy, or fryers, or any other category? Those are there too—sorted and ready for your perusal.
Go on; I know you want to try it. I’ll wait.
And that’s not all. In addition to our daily delivery of product reviews, we will continue to bring you the latest product trends and business intelligence out there. We will be your eyes and ears of the industry through a ramped-up editorial effort that will include blogs, lists and feature articles—all tailored to address the information you need to run a thriving convenience-store business.
The launch of CStoreProductsOnline.com brings with it a whole new function previously unavailable on any of our websites: an online supplier guide. Searchable and integrated right along with the product reviews, our c-store supplier database will allow you to find exactly whom you’re looking for, with contact information and more tools from featured suppliers.
You will find all that content on your screen in a bigger, more vibrant and beautiful presentation. It’s clean and easy to navigate. But above all, it’s built for performance—to help you make decisions about your product mix as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Please let us know how we did. Email me at alewis@winsightmedia.com with any ideas about how we can continue to grow this site into a vital tool in your business-building arsenal.