Whitehouse Station, N.J.-based QuickChek opened its newest fresh convenience market in Jamesburg, N.J. The contemporary, 5,496–square-foot store offers the company’s ‘Fresh to Go’ design, with more than 50% of the store dedicated to providing freshly prepared food and market items. Well-spaced food displays, wide aisles, mobile ordering and curbside pickup add further convenience for today’s shopping…
TravelCenters of America Accelerates Expansion, Pursues Franchising Opportunities
TravelCenters of America Inc. announced that it’s accelerating its network expansion strategy by actively pursuing franchising opportunities for business growth. In addition, the company announced a new TA Express franchise opening in Mt. Vernon, Texas. “We believe there are significant opportunities for continued growth through franchising and in early 2020, we began rapidly increasing our…
Snacking Soars as C-Stores Vie for Sales
Snack sales at c-stores aren’t immune to fluctuations as COVID-19 forces customers to stay home. While some c-store retailers reported a surge in sales as shoppers raced to stock up ahead of self-quarantine measures, the numbers show the majority of those sales increases were captured by other channels — like supermarkets — where customers did…
ACE 2020 Conference Joins Fuel Ethanol Workshop in August
The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) announced its 33rd annual conference will be held in conjunction with the rescheduled International Fuel Ethanol Workshop (FEW) & Expo hosted by BBI International on the afternoon of Aug. 25, in Omaha, Neb. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the economic hardship it’s brought on the ethanol industry,…
Choice Market’s Omnichannnel Approach
Choice Market isn’t letting a pandemic impede its plans for 2020. If anything, COVID-19 has increased consumer demand for seamless delivery of convenience products, fresh prepared foods and autonomous, contactless checkout — the chain’s top initiatives. With two locations in Denver, and two more set to debut this year, Choice Market is making a name…
Love’s Launches Dollar Add-Ons Summer Campaign
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is giving customers the opportunity to get a candy, chips or a snack for $1 as part of its Dollar Add-Ons summer campaign. For the deal, customers can purchase any drink and one deli item or two roller grill items or tacos and get the candy, chips or snack…
Tiger Fuel Proposes New Charlottesville Location
Charlottesville, Va.-based Tiger Fuel Company has filed a special use permit application to grow its chain of gourmet-to-go convenience stores with the proposed build of The Market at Boyd Tavern in the Keswick neighborhood in Charlottesville, Va. The locally owned and family operated business meets with the county Board of Supervisors on May 20 at 6 p.m.…
Pilot Flying J Releases New Data Ahead of National Road Trip Day
New research from Pilot Flying J suggests that many Americans are inspired to travel more this summer once they feel safe from COVID-19 exposure, 65% reported an increase in the number of trips they plan to take. This data comes ahead of National Road Trip Day, the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, which was established…
Parkland Completes ConoMart Super Stores Acquisition
Parkland Fuel Corporation (Parkland) announced that through its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiaries (collectively, Parkland USA), it completed the asset agreement to acquire ConoMart Super Store, first announced in March. Conomart Super Stores began operations in 1964 under the name GM Petroleum. Today, with a team of roughly 40 employees, Conomart Super Stores operates seven retail sites, branded…
D&H United and Salary Finance Partner to Provide Salary-Linked Loans to Essential Workers
Salary Finance and D&H United Fueling Solutions partnered to provide salary-linked loans to D&H United employees. To date, Salary Finance has saved employees at D&H United Fueling Solutions over $26,000 on interest by helping them avoid borrowing from higher-cost alternatives like credit cards or payday loans. An essential business that supports critical fueling infrastructure, D&H…