Gasoline brings in lots of customers and sales, but come with the consequence of paper-thin margins for the retailers who sell it. To offset this, retailers are developing ways to lure in gas-centric customers and turn their interest onto in-store products. In order to do this, more and more retailers are relying on the marketing…
Nice N Easy’s John MacDougall to present at ICSDSI Food Show
Time is running out to register to attend Convenience Store Decisions’ 2007 Foodservice Show, which kicks off June 4 at the Renaissance Worthington Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. CSD’s Food Show is the only foodservice event in the convenience store and petroleum industry targeted directly to retailers and suppliers managing the fast-growing foodservice category. This…
changes abound for marsh
Supermarket giant makes changes in product offering. 2007 has been a busy year for Marsh Supermarkets. The Indianapolis-based chain, known well for markets operating under the Marsh, LoBill Foods and O’Malia’s Food Markets banners as well as 148 Village Pantry convenience stores, was purchased by Sun Capitol Partners near the close of 2006. Since switching…
rutters goes twofortwo
Local newspaper awards the chain for top honors second year in a row. Rutter’s doubled its pleasure on its way to finishing first in four categories in the York Sunday News’ 2007 “best of” reader survey. Rutter’s was No. 1 in milk and “deli, sub or sandwich”–two categories it also bested in 2006. In 2007,…
quiktrip abandons plans for st louis bakery
Site problems cause the chain to move onto new plans. QuikTrip Corp. has halted plans for a bakery in the St. Louis suburb of Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo., choosing instead to focus efforts on a nearly completed bakery in Belton. The Tulsa, Okla.-based convenience store chain pulled the plug on the $21 million project because of…
mh store kums and goes
“High-volume” location unit in Montana rebranded. Des Moines, Iowa-based Kum & Go has added another store to its growing list, according to the Grand Falls (Mont.) Tribune. The new unit, previously an M&H, will bring the chain’s total count to roughly 450 stores in 13 states. The store’s transition came and went without a beat,…
flying j waves goodbye to visa
Travel center refuses to accept popular credit card for diesel purchases. New signs are hanging from Flying J’s diesel pumps, and they do not bode well for credit card giant Visa. The chain of travel centers announced that starting today it would no longer accept Visa for diesel purchases. The decision came when the chain…
station owner protests prices
Wisconsin operator shutters fuel pumps for 24 hours. A Mequon, Wis. Mobil dealer shutter his gas pumps for 24 hours, hoping to start a movement aimed at convincing oil companies to lower their prices. “Somebody out there is making money at these prices, but not me,” Harvey Pollack, operator of the Towne Market Mobil, told…
tio networks and exxonmobil extend strategic alliance
Services will be made available to current and newly franchised On the Run and Tigermart stores. Burnaby, B.C.-based TIO Networks Corp., automated bill payment and financial services network, opted for a five-year extension to its strategic alliance with Exxon Mobil. The relationship, which began in 2004, has been extended to 2012. Under the terms of…
saracen energy acquires fuelquest
New merger will provide both companies with better resources. An investment fund managed by Houston-based Saracen Energy Advisors LP has acquired FuelQuest Inc., a provider of information technology, supply chain management and tax automation technologies to the downstream petroleum complex, fuel retailers, fuel suppliers, distributors, trading firms and large transportation companies. The acquisition will provide…