Sheetz Goes Back to College
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Convenience-store retailer Sheetz Inc. opened its second new restaurant/grocery concept store on September 28 in State College, Pa. This location focuses on the food and beverage...
View ArticleTA Acquires Additional C-Stores in Missouri, Kansas
WESTLAKE, Ohio --TravelCenters of America LLC (TA) has announced it has completed its previously disclosed acquisitions of convenience stores located throughout Missouri and Kansas, saying “36 stores...
View ArticleThe Home-Soda Market Heats Up
WATERBURY, Vt. -- Shots were fired this week in what will be an interesting showdown between home-soda brewers SodaStream and Keurig Kold.After months of buildup, Keurig initiated sales of its soda...
View ArticleChevron Partners With Tampa Bay Buccaneers
SAN RAMON, Calif. & TAMPA, Fla. -- Chevron Products Co., a division of Chevron USA Inc., has signed a multi-year sponsorship with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers professional football team.“We are excited...
View ArticleDunkin’ Donuts Debuts Digital ‘Time to Coffee’ Campaign
NEW YORK – On National Coffee Day, Dunkin’ Donuts—the chain that made “time to make the doughnuts” a catchphrase in the 1980s—has debuted “Time to Coffee,” a digital campaign enabling New York City...
View ArticleVNG Offering CNG at Andy’s
MILWAUKEE -- VNG.co LLC has announced the opening of a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling facility at an Andy's-branded gas station, and convenience store in Milwaukee.To mark the occasion, VNG...
View ArticleAscentium Capital Continues to Offer Wayne Deals
KINGWOOD, Texas & AUSTIN, Texas -- Ascentium Capital, a leader in providing commercial financing, is offering fuel retail and convenience-store customers two affordable financing promotions for...
View ArticleRetailers on the Move: August 2015
MESA, Ariz. -- The staff of CSPedia, Winsight's online encyclopedia of convenience-store chains, gathers news and insights and updates the listings for the nearly 500 retailers in its database on a...
View ArticleGas Prices’ Seasonal Stall
WASHINGTON & GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- As autumn leaves begin to fall, gasoline prices will likely continue their decline but possibly at a slower rate.The national average retail price for regular...
View Article‘All That’s Great in the Garden State’
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. --QuickChek Corp. and The Festival Group, which produces the annual QuickChek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, have each been named among the most generous companies in New...
View ArticleFour Ways to Appeal to Millennial Drinkers
CHICAGO -- Nearly three in 10 adults in the United States are millennials and of legal drinking age. The sheer size of the millennial generation, (born between 1977 and 1992), makes it a crucial...
View ArticleC-Store Chain Launches Meal Kit Pilot
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Square One Markets, a convenience store in Bethlehem, Pa., has launched a pilot for a new dinner kit that allows time-starved customers to quickly prepare nourishing family meals in...
View ArticleFermano Joins Brookwood as Controller for BW Gas & Convenience
BEVERLY, Mass. -- Brookwood Financial Partners LLC, a leading real estate investment and asset management company, has announced that Jennifer L. Fermano has joined the firm as a vice president and...
View ArticleAttorneys General Seek FDA Action on E-Liquid Warning Labels
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, together with the attorneys general of Illinois and Indiana, co-sponsored a letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration urging the...
View ArticleTyson Foods, NACS Give to Las Vegas Food Bank
SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- Tyson Foods Inc. and the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) donated a truckload of protein September 28 to Three Square Food Bank in Las Vegas to help eliminate...
View ArticleABC, VP Partner With CBE on POS Financing
KINGSTON, N.J. -- Allied Brand Capital (ABC) and VP Racing Fuels have jointly announced a partnership with CBE Inc., one of the largest distributors and installers of Verifone POS systems in the...
View ArticleTreats Are Trending
NEW YORK -- Treats are trending. Consumers rank perennial specialty food favorites cheese and chocolate among their top five picks, plus ice cream and frozen desserts; coffee, and cookies, brownies,...
View ArticleAllsup’s Facing EEOC Lawsuit
CLOVIS, N.M. -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against Clovis, N.M.-based Allsup’s Convenience Stores, alleging discrimination against at least eight...
View ArticleHeineken Launches 'Spectre' Campaign
NEW YORK -- Ahead of the worldwide release of the latest installment in James Bond movies, Heineken USA today announced the latest chapter of its global partnership with the iconic film...
View ArticleWoodford Oil Acquires Guttman’s W.Va. Wholesale Business
ELKINS, W.Va. -- Woodford Oil Co. has acquired Guttman Energy’s wholesale petroleum distribution business in West Virginia, building on a decade of expansion in the Mountain State and the Appalachian...
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