Chevron Corp. has appointed presidents of two technology divisions, Chevron Energy Technology and Chevron Information Technology, the company said. Melody Meyer will become president of Chevron Energy Technology, while Louie Ehrlich will become president of Chevron Information Technology, as well as chief information officer beginning June 1, 2008. Meyer replaces the retiring Mark Puckett, while [...]
Cincinnati-based grocery retailer The Kroger Co., which also operates convenience stores including QuikStop and Turkey Hill, is offering customers financial incentives when they exchange their tax refunds at Kroger stores, the Business Courier of Cincinnati reported. The company said Wednesday it will trade customers’ Internal Revenue Service rebates for Kroger gift cards in the following [...]
Wisconsin-based c-store operator Kwik Trip is working to increase its diversity of fresh and ready-to-serve food products by contracting a local healthcare provider’s food safety division to monitor its product lines, the Wausau Daily Herald reported. The preparation and delivery of Kwik Trip’s products, which are made fresh daily at the new Kwik Trip commissary [...]
Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc. is ramping up its Slurpee season with the promotion of the May 2 release of “Iron Man,” a Marvel Comics superhero movie, the company said. The month-long “Iron Man” campaign at 7-Eleven will offer customers four multi-image, 3-D Slurpee cups featuring film shots of Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr’s lead character, [...]
McDonald’s Corp. is urging its store owners in the Western U.S. to slash large soda prices to $1 this summer in a move the company hopes will attract consumers away from convenience stores, a company memo obtained by Crain’s Chicago Business showed. "Let’s take the C-store drink out of their hands and build our transactions," [...]
Motorists at a Wilmington, N.C., gas station spent nine hours filling up on gas that was priced at 35 cents a gallon last week after a clerk’s error accidentally changed the pump price from $3.35 to 35 cents, The Charlotte Observer reported. Charlotte Observer columnist Tommy Tomlinson berated motorists in the Atlantic Coast town of [...]
About two-thirds of shoppers who responded to a survey by market researcher ICOM Information and Communications LP said they are at least somewhat more likely to use coupons during a recession. About 45% of shoppers said they are much more likely to use coupons in a recession, while 22% said they are somewhat more likely, [...]
Information Resources Inc. (IRI) and the Europanel Association, which has the largest share of the consumer panel market in the world, announced they’re joining forces to form the world’s widest-reaching, single-panel research service. The cooperative will combine IRI’s Consumer Network household panel in the U.S. with the Europanel to form a global consumer network representing [...]
Police are investigating an elaborate scheme in which a group of thieves in Florida used a “never-before-seen” electronic device to hack into a gas station pump and steal unlimited amounts of fuel, a television news station in Casselberry, Fla., reported. Five cars filled with members of the alleged gas thieves were seen bypassing the pump [...]
Sheetz Inc. has opened a new location on 270 Route 61 South in Schuylkill Haven, Pa., the company said. The new store will be the 197th Sheetz in Pennsylvania and the 347th nationwide. As part of the store’s grand opening this week, Sheetz made a donation to Blue Mountain School District, which will be used [...]
In an announcement on its full-year results, UK supermarket chain Tesco said it was “very encouraged” by the start Fresh & Easy has made since opening in the U.S. in November 2007, according to talkingretail.com. “While it is still early days, the response of customers to our offer has surpassed our expectations – with our [...]
Mars said it has hired digital shop imc2 to head all strategic planning, creative and media work for its customized candy unit Mars Direct, as well as for My M&M’s and My Dove brands, brandweek.com reported. It’s the first time the customized candy division at Mars has selected an online shop to handle its media [...]
McDonald’s will let customers at 113 locations in Utah, Wyoming and Nevada gain access to mobile coupons when they use a Cellfire mobile coupon from April 7 to 27, according to brandweek.com. Customers can go to cellfire.com or text “mcd” to 22888 to receive the Cellfire application, and on signing up they receive a redemption [...]
Direct store deliveries (DSDs) are part of the daily routine for any convenience store, but the constant re-keying of information from an invoice hard copy into a computer is time-consuming and prone to error. The task is becoming less daunting for convenience store operators who use the Computerized Daily Book (CDB) back office system from [...]
Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc. is ramping up its Slurpee season with the promotion of the May 2 release of “Iron Man,” a Marvel Comics superhero movie, the company said. The month-long “Iron Man” campaign at 7-Eleven will offer customers four multi-image, 3-D Slurpee cups featuring film shots of Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr’s lead character, [...]