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With the first semester underway, Sodexo, a global company focusing on foodservice for colleges and universities across the U.S., reported the launch of four new eat>NOW frictionless grocery stores. Sodexo [...]

Casey's General Stores, a convenience store chain in the U.S., reported an agreement to acquire Fikes Wholesale, Inc., owner of CEFCO Convenience Stores (CEFCO), in an all-cash transaction for $1.145 [...]

ORGANISED CRIME Convenience stores are increasingly targeted by gangs stealing to order and looting - Susan Connolly, Spar [...]

Grocer Gold Award winner Tout's is hard to pigeonhole. In July, it took the title of Independent Retail Chain of the Year. But that doesn't fully convey its proposition. For [...]

Theft against the convenience sector has soared by 409% in the past year, reaching 5.6 million incidents, according to new ACS figures. The scale of the crisis blighting communities across [...]

Jempson's is planning to open two new convenience stores under its Local banner this year. The new sites will add to its existing c-stores in Battle, Bexhill, Northiam and Wadhurst, [...]

Byline: Alice Leader The cost of living crisis has thrown a spanner in the works for convenience retailers. Not so long ago they were among the heroes of the pandemic, [...]

Byline: Alice Leader & Steve Farrell The Association of Convenience Stores has criticised new HFSS guidance for continuing to lack clarity over the inclusion of symbol groups and franchises in [...]

Independent retailer Jempson's has installed electronic shelf labels across its convenience stores in East Sussex. ESLs have replaced 25,000 paper-based price tags in a rollout completed this month, helping to [...]

The New Shop (TNS) -- a 24/7 convenience commerce platform with retail and online stores offering food, FMCG, and hyperlocal deliveries -- has opened its 38th store at the Sardar [...]

Remedy Kombucha has become the first kombucha to launch in bp-owned convenience stores across the United Kingdom with its Wild Berry and Raspberry Lemonade flavours (250ml; MSRP 1.99 [pounds sterling]). [...]

Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL), through its wholly-owned subsidiary, 7-India Convenience Retail Limited, has entered into a master franchise agreement with 7-Eleven, Inc. (SEI) for the launch of 7-Eleven convenience [...]

GK Software reported that Hy-Vee, an employee-owned grocery and convenience retailer operating more than 280 stores in eight Midwestern states, has completed a full deployment of the GK OmniPOS, TransAction+ [...]

HempFusion Wellness reported the launch of its CBD Gummy line. According to a media release, utilizing HempFusion's proprietary broad-spectrum hemp extract, never an isolate, the Company's new, great tasting gummies [...]

The Alkaline Water Company reported that all Yesway/Allsup convenience stores will carry A88CBD ingestibles in retail locations across the Midwest. 'We are excited to announce that our A88CBD lemon-lime flavored [...]

Convenience stores may not come to mind as sites of grand innovation, but Town Pump leads its market in Montana in such a way. The company was started in 1953 [...]

Convenience stores may not come to mind as sites of grand innovation, but Town Pump leads its market in Montana in such a way. The company was started in 1953 [...]

Byline: Alice Leader Nearly half of convenience retailers (44%) say the National Lottery is more important than ever to their business, with only six months left until the Gambling Commission [...]

Byline: Lyndsey Cambridge & Alice Leader Gone are the days when convenience meant a quick trip to the nearest corner shop. For shoppers in the coronavirus era, true convenience means [...]

ACI Worldwide and Gilbarco Veeder-Root reported that they are collaborating to jointly certify the ACI point-to-point encryption (P2PE) data security offeringenabling merchants to protect millions of consumers who use debit [...]

Casey's General Stores reported an agreement to acquire Buchanan Energy, owner of Bucky's Convenience Stores, in an all-cash transaction for $580 million. According to a media release, the purchase price [...]

LAST YEAR MARKED ANOTHER RECORD YEAR FOR THE CONVENIENCE STORE channel. Although other channels might be closing stores in response to eCommerce trends, convenience store chains are expanding their brick-and-mortar [...]

Byline: Steve Farrell Deliveroo has signed up hundreds of London convenience stores and off-licences as it sets its sights on domination of on-demand grocery delivery. The Grocer has seen a [...]

MAJORS MANAGEMENT LLC, Lawrenceville, GA, acquired nine ALLSUP'S convenience stores in Texas. The stores will be operated under the HOP-IN brand ... The Eastern New Mexico News (Aug. [...]

CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, Ankeny, IA, acquired the FANTASY'S CONVENIENCE stores and RIDE THE WAVE carwashes located in the Omaha, NE, metro area. Casey's plans to perform significant remodels at all [...]

Casey's General Stores reported that it has acquired the Fantasy's Convenience stores and Ride the Wave carwashes located in the Omaha, Nebraska metro area. According to a release, Casey's plans [...]

GLOBAL PARTNERS LP, Waltham, MA, will sell 24 convenience stores in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Lot sizes range from 10,000-sq. ft. to 2.1 acres and buildings [...]

NATIONAL OIL CO., Bluffton, IN, acquired nine convenience stores and other business units from NEY OIL CO, Ney, OH. The deal includes Ney's transportation, wholesale fuel and propane businesses ... [...]

SPEEDWAY, Enon, OH, bought 10 EXPRESS MART gas stations and convenience stores in upstate New York, after the parent companies of the two brands completed a larger transaction involving 78 [...]

GLOBAL PARTNERS LP, Waltham, MA, will sell 11 convenience stores in the Albany, Schenectady, Poughkeepsie and Germantown, NY, areas. The buildings range from kiosks to 3,355-sq. ft..Convenience Store News (Dec. [...]

An estimated 165 million people shop at a convenience store every day, according to Time to Shop, a report released by THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONVENIENCE STORES (NACS). Shoppers who [...]

Dash In, a Wills Group company, reported it has partnered with its supplier, Tyson Foods, to donate 36,000 pounds of chicken to the Food Bank of Delaware, a statewide nonprofit [...]

DESPITE THE NUMBER OF HURDLES THAT IT HAS FACED WITHIN THE PAST year, the convenience store channel still is holding steady, experts note. Carl Boraca, vice president of content product [...]

The mountains east of Orem, Utah--home of Janey Lou's Inc.--were dusted with snow on the day Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery visited the bakery; which was busy making stollen bread, [...]

YESWAY, West Des Moines, IA, acquired five RIP GRIFFIN TRAVEL CENTER convenience stores in Texas and the STATE LINE CONVENIENCE store in Joplin, [...]

FRAWLEY OIL CO., Whitewater, WI, sold five convenience stores to CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, Ankeny, IA. Casey's will rebrand the locations, which will undergo improvements in the coming months ... Convenience [...]

ENMARKET STATIONS, Savannah, GA, will acquire 34 convenience stores from BRABHAM OIL CO., Bamberg, SC. Enmarket will assume operations of the stores in mid-April. The Times and Democrat (Feb. [...]

Just 32.8% of consumers seek out clean label snacks at convenience stores, according to a survey by EIQ RESEARCH SOLUTIONS. However, about 52.6% of shoppers would buy snacks at convenience [...]

PESTER MARKETING CO., Denver, CO, will acquire the convenience store and gas station business of WESTERN CONVENIENCE STORES INC., Centennial, CO. The 43 sites are located in Colorado and western [...]

PAR PACIFIC HOLDINGS INC., Houston, TX, will acquire 33 CENEX ZIP TRIP convenience stores from CHS INC., Inver Grove Heights, MN, for approximately $70 million. As part of the transaction, [...]

THIRTY YEARS AGO, MANY CONSUMERS HAD A NEGATIVE PERCEPTION OF buying food at a gas station, in the 1983 film 'National Lampoon's Vacation,' Chevy Chase's character, Clark Griswold, 'I'm so [...]

Prepared foods are an important part of convenience store sales, and the category is shedding its reputation as a source of unhealthy products, according to Convenience Store News' Realities of [...]