Noco Energy Corp. is using Buffalo-based McCullagh Coffee to supply coffee to 29 Noco convenience store locations, Business First of Buffalo reported. The coffee will be sold under the Nickel City Roast brand name at various Noco Express locations in the Buffalo region. “Our people have worked hard to produce a uniquely-blended…
Quick Chek Opens 121st Store
Teammates from the 11U division of the Ramsey Baseball and Softball Association enjoy the grand opening of Quick Chek located at 40 N.J. State Route 17 North, Ramsey, N.J. Quick Chek, which operates locations throughout New Jersey and southern New York, just celebrated the grand opening of its 121st store located at 40 N.J.…
Coinstar Expands Prepaid Solutions
Coinstar E-Payment Services, a subsidiary of Coinstar, Inc. is expanding its Pay As You Go product offerings to meet the demands of the growing digital entertainment and financial services categories. In the digital entertainment category, Coinstar is expanding its prepaid offerings with a new Amazon MP3-branded Gift Card. Coinstar is also adding the…
NACS Begins New Foodservice, Advocacy Initiatives
At the NACS Show, NACS President and CEO Hank announced two bold initiatives – a new program to nurture and grow foodservice excellence among convenience retailers and a massive advocacy effort . The opportunity to dramatically grow foodservice sales, which already account for nearly one in every seven dollars spent inside convenience stores, is almost…
Cumberland Farms’ Scholarship Program Turns Four
Cumberland Farms, Framingham, Mass., is accepting applications from eligible 2010 high school graduates for its Believe and Achieve Scholarship program. This is the fourth year the chain has been able to provide individual $1,000 scholarships to graduating high school seniors bound for college. The Believe and Achieve Scholarship program is open to…
Sheetz Settles Salmonella Suit
Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz has settled out of court with Coronet Foods of Wheeling, W. Va., which allegedly supplied the chain with salmonella-tainted tomatoes that sickened more than 400 customers in 2004, the Associated Press reported. Coronet Foods, a food wholesaler, acknowledged supplying the tomatoes that were sold by Sheetz on sandwiches and other…
7-Eleven’s Private-Label Brand Expands Into Bakery
To complement its steadily growing line of 7-Select private-label products as well as the fresh-baked-daily items in its bakery case, some 5,700 participating 7-Eleven stores are adding 15 packaged bakery items under the company’s private-label brand. Snack cakes and pies, mini-donuts and breakfast pastries fill in the snack category for consumers who prefer…
Free Coffee Giveaway
Wilson Farms, headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., will giveaway free coffee from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28. Customers who stop into any local Wilson Farms store during that time and fill up a 12-ounce cup of coffee, cappuccino, hot chocolate or tea will get the drink for free. “This…
Crude Oil Rally Drives Gasoline Higher
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN Retail gasoline prices will continue to march higher into November across the U.S., with wholesale costs for gasoline being pulled up by climbing crude oil values. In fact, crude oil prices in the U.S. have topped $80 barrel, and now analysts are pointing to $100 barrel…
New NACS Chairman: “We Are Part of An Incredible Industry”
“My involvement with NACS made me both a better, and larger operator,” 2009-2010 NACS Chairman of the Board Jay Ricker shared with a packed house during a general session presentation at the NACS Show in Las Vegas last week. “I’m a pretty typical retailer… an oilman my whole life,” Ricker said. But the…