United Supermarkets has chosen software and services company FuelQuest to streamline and manage the grocery chain’s bulk fuel processes, FuelQuest said. United Supermarkets is a regional grocery chain operating 47 stores in 27 cities across north and west Texas. “Heightened fuel price volatility coupled with the expansion of our retail fuel sites throughout Texas required [...]
Jason Waltz of Spring Grove is proof that good things happen in threes, according to Rutter’s Farm Stores. On Monday, Waltz celebrated his 33rd birthday, and just a day later ended up celebrating the win of three years worth of free gasoline, courtesy of Rutter’s Farm Stores. Waltz was the second grand-prize winner in Rutter’s [...]
Susser Holdings Corp. has selected KSS to help manage its fuel prices at more than 500 locations in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Susser expanded its relationship with KSS after it acquired Town and Country Food Stores, which was an existing KSS customer during the acquisition. KSS is a global supplier of fuels pricing analytics, [...]
Dillons said it’s building its first gas station not located on the site of a Dillons grocery store, The Wichita Eagle reported. Operating as a small convenience kiosk surrounded by Dillons’ logoed gas pumps, the new store is expected to open next month and is the first such concept under the Dillons flag, company spokeswoman [...]
Hot Stuff Foods has reached last year’s franchise openings in half the time as a result of its “Quality, Service and Freshness” (QSF) initiative, said Hot Stuff CEO John Fontana. Hot Stuff’s total focus on QSF has helped make the company the largest and highest-rated pizza franchiser in the convenience store industry, Fontana said. “For [...]
Economic pressures are expected to drive consumers to brew more premium coffee at home and possibly choose less extravagant out-of-home coffees, according to a Packaged Foods study referenced by mediapost.com. The end result could mean the foodservice sector will maintain the lion’s share of coffee dollars, though growth in coffee purchased in retail could slightly [...]
Chester’s International, a leading fried chicken foodservice offering in the convenience store industry, celebrated another the grand opening this past week as it unveiled its store in a Sam’s Mart in Charlotte, N.C. The Charlotte Chester’s will be owned and operated by Adnan Jazairi. “Sam’s Express Mart is happy bringing Chester’s great tasting menu items [...]
Coca-Cola drinkers can expect to pay more for their favorite drink this fall, after Coca-Cola Enterprises – the company’s biggest bottler – said it’s raising prices after Labor Day, the New York Times reported. Problems at the bottler also hurt the Coca-Cola Company’s bottom line, because it owns about 35% of that business, the newspaper [...]
ePayments Corp., an electronic payments processing and support services company, said it has acquired ACH Technologies Inc. of Hastings, Minn. Under the acquisition terms, ePayments will assume control of and manage the company’s check recovery accounts from Denver. The move also allows ePayments to offer additional services to the newly acquired accounts, such as credit [...]
Nine California stores, multiple owners, just one sale. NRC Realty Advisors is putting a twist on its traditional sealed bid auction process. It is offering nine retail units owned by several companies in a single bid auction process which will culminate Aug. 26. Previously, all units offered in each sale had been owned and operated [...]
Dresser Wayne, a global marketer of retail fuel dispensers and technologies, reported its Nucleus Point of Sale Base 19 software has achieved Visa Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) compliance validation. The validation was performed by Trustwave, a provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to global businesses and organizations. Through [...]
Hess Corp., operator of more than 1,350 convenience stores in 14 states from Massachusetts to Florida, has chosen IBM Cognos BI to deliver a full range of business intelligence capabilities across its marketing and refining organization. Looking to deliver unified access to critical information in its downstream operations, Hess executives decided to standardize its performance [...]
C-store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. this week reported a 53% decrease in quarterly profits as it saw net earnings in the fourth quarter drop to $15.5 million – a decrease of $17.9 million from last year. The retailer said the drop comes amid weak motor fuel gross margins in the U.S., but it also said [...]
Sunoco Inc. said its board of directors has elected Lynn Laverty Elsenhans as CEO and president effective Aug. 8, 2008, when current CEO and President John Drosdick retires. Elsenhans has also been elected as a member of Sunoco’s board of directors. To assist in the transition, Drosdick will remain non-executive chairman of the board until [...]
In a move to restructure its debt in response to rising raw material prices, Cincinnati-based Pierre Foods Inc. and its subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Pierre Foods said it intends to work with all of its constituencies to reach mutually [...]