Are you ready to comply with new cigarette warning label regulations? Get your questions answered straight from the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products in one of two information sessions. The FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) announced it is hosting two Webinars on Tuesday, July 26 on Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements. The…
McLane Helps The Pantry Achieve Fundraising Goal
Huge response early on in Salute Our Troops campaign is expected to inspire more donations throughout summer. McLane Co. Inc. has helped The Pantry Inc. achieve the $1 million fundraising goal early in the “Salute Our Troops” summer-long campaign to support the military. Through The Pantry’s more than 1,600 Kangaroo Express stores across 13 states,…
Wal-Mart To Share Sales Information With Nielsen
“We believe that Wal-Mart’s participation in the information sharing model reinforces the importance of business information and analytics in today’s retail climate,” says Nielsen CEO. Nielsen, a global provider of information and analytics around what consumers watch and buy, has signed a cooperation agreement with Wal-Mart to receive and analyze sales information from Wal-Mart’s U.S.…
Nugget Ice Machines
Manitowoc offers two types of nugget ice machines that complement any food and beverage applications from carbonated beverages to blended smoothies, making them perfect for use in convenience stores. The RN Series ice machine produces a tubular nugget ice ideal for dispensing in beverage applications, as the longer nugget discourages congealing. The ice shape is…
Electronic Shelf Tags
ZBD Displays Ltd. offers electronic point of purchase (epop) shelf tags. The tags attach wirelessly to a shelf edge, offer a battery life of about five years and don’t require extensive hardware for installation. ZBD software is installed within the company’s existing IT system and is easily manipulated within a Windows environment. Fully-graphical LCD displays…
FuelQuest Expands ForeSite Product Line
“ForeSite SV allows me to keep my finger on the pulse of my fuel operations while ForeSite IC allows me to discover inventory variances immediately,” says fuel purchasing specialist for Hy-Vee. FuelQuest Inc., an on-demand software and services company for the global downstream energy industry, is expanding its ForeSite product line with two real-time fuel…
Susser Holdings Predicts Q2 Operating Results
Susser adds six new convenience stores and eight dealer sites in second quarter. Corpus Christi, Texas-based Susser Holdings Corp. expects to report same-store merchandise sales growth for the second quarter of 2011 of approximately 5.8% year-over-year when it releases its second quarter operating results next month. Retail average per-store fuel volumes are expected to increase…
Thorntons Salutes Hot Dogs
On National Hot Dog Day Thorntons serves up 40 cent hot dogs. July 23 marks National Hot Dog Day, and Thorntons is set to celebrate by offering Ball Park hot dogs with a variety of toppings for less than a dollar at participating stores. Customers are limited to two specially-priced hot dogs upon their visit.…
Local Store Marketing for Retailers
By John Matthews, founder and president of Gray Cat Enterprises Inc., www.graycatenterprises.com. In today’s tough economy, the fight for share-of-customer by retail stores to effectively capture sales has never been fiercer. Retail stores that sit back and wait for the economy to improve will have a very long road to recovery. Aggressive retailers that go…
C-Stores Partner With Nexxus
Convenience stores look to Nexxus Group solutions for category visibility via scan based trading. Kroger, Holiday Stationstores and GasAmerica all recently separately partnered with Nexxus Group to utilize its scan-based trading programs. Kroger enlisted Nexxus to provide the systems and customer service for scan based trading at its 786 c-stores in 18 states under five…