Checkout www.guidingstars.com
Guiding Stars is an objective food rating system that rates food based on nutrient density using a scientific algorithm. Rated foods are marked with easy-to-follow tags indicating 0, 1, 2, or 3 stars. The more nutritional value a food has, the more Guiding Stars it receives. If a food doesn’t receive a star – it means it doesn’t meet our rigorous criteria.

One Guiding Star indicates good nutritional value
Two Guiding Stars indicate better nutritional value
Three Guiding Stars indicate the best nutritional value
As you go through each aisle of the store or navigate through your cafeteria at lunchtime, the Guiding Stars system can help you identify more nutritious choices. Guiding Stars is not intended to tell you what to buy, but rather point you toward foods that have more vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, whole grains –and less fats, cholesterol, sugar and sodium.

Guiding Stars is objective, based on consumer research, and not influenced by price, brand or manufacturer trade groups. And with over 60,000 rated foods, making nutritious choices for you and your family is now simple… and even fun.

Contact Katie Jones at 207-885-7260 for more info and all the possibilities for your store.

For the last three months we have had a group of individuals entering our property one individual will cover the satellite receiver with tinfoil. This is done to circumvent credit/gift card approvals. We have a phone line backup but it will not always work with gift cards. The card will be approved by the system but the charge will not be deducted from the gift card nor be credited to your account. The group will come in one by one or in pairs and attempt to purchase large quantities of Newport Cigarettes and will present several gift cards and credit cards until the system approves one of them. One of the individuals is a truck driver from a national trucking company. We have identified 6 subjects and they are operating along interstate 55 in Illinois and in St. Louis.

The midwest has all of those markets, it just depends on where you locate your store.

Casey's General Store based out of DesMoines Iowa has a large number of stores (1000+) but they are not really a local or family minded store. They are more of a "do it the corporate way" store with little thought of tayloring there store to the local (smaller) markets.

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