What are your customers looking for? From foodservice to the cold vault, customers see c-stores as a destination, but how closely do you track where they go once they enter your store? The upcoming National Advisory Group (NAG) conference this September, will feature a session on merchandising and marketing success that shares how new technology,…
NACS Releases New Disaster-Planning Resources
NACS released The NACS Convenience Store Emergency Planning and Job Aids to help c-stores with disaster-planning procedures. The resources, available for download at www.convenience.org/disasterplan, are a result of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Infrastructure Protection Program Challenge, which was awarded to NACS in 2018 to identify and enhance how convenience stores can boost…
Hunt Brothers Brings Back LTO Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza
Hunt Brothers Pizza is bringing back the brand’s Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza for the fifth year in a row as a limited-time offer (LTO), starting July 29 at participating locations while supplies last. With more than 7,800 locations in 28 states, Hunt Brothers Pizza is the nation’s largest brand of made-to-order pizza in the convenience store industry. Headquartered in Nashville,…
Big Y Express to Open 10th Location
Big Y Foods Inc. announced it will open the 10th Big Y Express Gas Station and Convenience Store this fall, located in front of its supermarket in Manchester, Conn. This 2,575 sq ft. location will contain 10 pumping positions with 87, 89 and 93 octane fuel at every dispenser. Diesel will also be available. A…
Del Monte Creates New Product Development Team
Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc. has created of a unified North America New Product Development (NPD) team to better serve its consumers and integrate Mann Packing, a Del Monte Fresh company, into its ongoing product development processes. As part of this change, Alex McCloskey, director of New Product Development at Mann Packing, will expand his…
Cumberland Farms Adds Mocha Frozen Cold Brew to Coffee Menu
Cumberland Farms announced that the brand is expanding its coffee menu with the launch of Mocha Frozen Cold Brew. The beverage uses extract from Cumberland Farms’ signature Farmhouse Blend coffee beans. Customers can purchase Mocha Frozen Cold Brew for just 99 cents for a small or large ($1.29 for an extra large in Florida) at…
BRP Report Reveals Supply Chain Disruptions
BRP’s new report, called Tariffs, Terrorists & Tsunamis: Minimize the Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions with Agile Strategies, shows that the recent increases — and threat of increases — in tariffs are causing disruptions to today’s retail supply chains. According to the report, while tariffs are currently the hot topic, supply chains are vulnerable to many…
Duchess Wins 2019 Paytronix Award for Exceptional Customer Engagement
Paytronix Systems Inc. announced that Duchess Convenience Stores has won the 2019 Paytronix Loyaltee’s Award for Exceptional Customer Engagement. Prior to working with Paytronix, Duchess’s loyalty program was a traditional points system which awarded customers points based on purchases that could be redeemed for fuel discounts. Because the margin on fuel is often much lower…
Thirteen Thousand Shell-Branded Stations Now Accept WEX Mobile Payments
Financial technology service provider WEX announced WEX Fleet DriverDash is now available to fleet drivers at thousands of Shell-branded locations across the country. DriverDash, the next generation in mobile fuel payments and the first mobile payment platform from WEX, enables drivers to authorize a fuel transaction from inside their vehicles. It uses a device’s biometric…
LSI Industries Names New Director of Commercial Marketing
LSI Industries Inc., manufacturer of outdoor and indoor lighting and graphics for commercial, industrial and multi-site retail applications, has named Sean Hamilton as the new Director of Commercial Marketing. Blue Ash, Ohio-based LSI employs more than 1,200 employees and operates seven facilities throughout the U.S. Hamilton is responsible for leading, developing and executing the overall commercial…