Chain adds 33 Michigan and Indiana stores to its total. Village Pantry Inc. has acquired the business of Imperial Co. Inc. and its 33 Next Door Store locations in Michigan and Indiana. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Next Door Store sells premium branded fuel, convenience products, runs quick-serve restaurants, car washes and other [...]
Travel center makes a deal to bring full-service dining to its locations. Pilot Travel Centers LLC and Denny’s Corp. has unveiled plans for Denny’s to develop restaurants within Pilot Travel Centers across the U.S. This new relationship represents the joining of two of the nation’s largest companies in their respective categories. “Developing restaurants along our [...]
Six California locations set to open in early November. The long-awaited, much-talked about debut is on its way. This week, Tesco announced a Nov. 8 opening for its first six Southern California locations of Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, according to the Press Enterprise. Stores set to open that day are at Florida and Lyon [...]
Credit card processingFees remain one of the topthree concerns for convenienceretailers—and though it seems reasonable to expect that improving datasecurity at the point of sale would cutcharges because it lowers transaction risks,experts say this is not the case. “I don’t know if anyone has ever beensuccessful in presenting improved securityas a reason for getting a [...]
Chain expands its reconciliation systems to the its Eastern Division. Alimentation Couche-Tard Eastern Division has selected Trintech Group Plc’s ReconNET to automate funds reconciliation processes, monitor transactional risk and optimize the resolution and reporting of exceptions. The selection is part of an expansion; Circle K Divisions in Arizona and Mac’s Convenience Stores in Ohio currently [...]
New Jersey dairy and c-store chain celebrates half a century of service. On Oct. 10, 1957, Heritage’s Dairy Stores opened its first location after converting a hoagie shop into a c-store. Now, 50 years later, the chain is still going strong as one of a popular stop for shoppers in the New Jersey area. Thorofare, [...]
New POS and self-service retail systems installed. The Spinx Co. Inc. has made an agreement with Radiant Systems Inc. to deploy Radiant point-of-sale (POS) and customer self-service technology to more than 40 Spinx-branded locations. “The mission of The Spinx Co. is to ‘Make People’s Lives Easier,’” said Stewart Spinks, founder and CEO of The Spinx [...]
The companies are projected to have combined annual beer sales of 69 million barrels with revenue of about $6.6 billion. Molson Coors Brewing Co. and SABMiller PLC plan to combine their U.S. and Puerto Rican operations, creating a beer powerhouse with annual revenue of about $6.6 billion. The venture will be called MillerCoors. The two [...]
Company donates $2 million to new memorial. ConocoPhillips has pledged $2 million to help fund the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Center, an educational facility being built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The donation puts the Memorial Fund at around $14 million in pledges for the Center, which is estimated to cost between $75 million [...]
Fuel for Care program spends half a decade providing gas for sick families. This October marks the fifth year of Irving Oil’s Fuel the Care program. The program helps families pay for fuel when they drive between home and hospital for their children’s medical care. To celebrate this anniversary, Irving Oil will donate $200,000 to [...]
Court gives Shell control of unit after Shahbazi failed to pay taxes, violated court orders. Who needs to listen to a court ruling when you can just starve yourself? That’s what Marina, Calif. Shell retailer Mehdi Shahbazi thought. The franchisee went to court with Shell as early as September 2000, when he claimed that the [...]
PCATS members receive intellectual property regarding XML. Gilbarco Inc. will make two key patents available by non-enforcement to the industry for implementations of the Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards (PCATS) Open Site Architecture (OSA), contained in the PCATS Fueling Point Specification. The Gilbarco patents are U.S. Patent Numbers 6,571,201 and 6,820,041 filed in August [...]
Newest addition to the collectible “Car” family line is unveiled. Chevron has introduced the newest addition to The Chevron Cars family, Courage, the seventh special edition Chevron Car created to help raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. All net proceeds of the sale of Courage will be donated to the Susan G. Komen [...]
As expected, new tobacco tax shot down. After being approved by both the House and Senate, the bill calling for a federal excise tax of 61 cents per pack for cigarettes has been vetoed by President Bush. The tax, which would fund the $35 billion Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), has been in [...]
The Subway restaurant chain has named three franchisees as the recipients of its Franchisee of the Year awards during the company’s recent convention in Orlando, Fla. This year’s awards were presented to Savana and Jennifer Som of British Columbia, Canada; Jean-Claude Demanne of France; and Ines Banse of Germany. “The franchisee is the heart and [...]