Looking to snag breakfast customers away from convenience stores and quick-service competitors, Denny’s is expanding a test of its Fresh Express grab-and-go concept and adding drive-throughs to two franchised units, according to Nation’s Restaurant News. Denny’s Fresh Express, a 200-square-foot, grab-and-go counter situated inside a traditional full-service unit, features hot and cold beverages and [...]
In celebration of the grand opening of its newest stores in southwest Missouri, Kum & Go, one of the nation’s leading convenience store chains, will give away a 2009 Harley Davidson Nightster motorcycle to one of its loyal customers. “The Harley Davidson giveaway is a perfect opportunity for us to get to know our newest [...]
Hunt Brothers Pizza has partnered with Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2009 NASCAR racing season. The Nashville, Tenn.-based company will serve as a primary sponsor of the No. 44 car driven by AJ Allmendinger, one of the sport’s hottest drivers, who is currently ranked 15th in the Sprint Cup points standings. The Hunt Brothers-sponsored Dodge [...]
Stripes, the convenience store division of Susser Holdings Corp., is now carrying Coinstar’s full range of Pay As You Go products and services at more than 500 locations in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Coinstar’s complete Pay As You Go solution features national and regional prepaid wireless programs, long distance cards, gift cards, digital entertainment [...]
The address hasn’t changed, but the new Rutter’s in Wrightsville is miles in size and appearance from the convenience store that preceded it. Rutter’s closed and razed the original store in March to make way for the replacement store built next to it. At 5,125 square feet, the new store is nearly 80% larger than [...]
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor for DTN Retail gasoline prices will continue higher across the U.S. during the first full week of April, pushed up by increases in gasoline’s wholesale markets from coast-to-coast. Expectations are that gasoline prices will continue to edge higher through much of spring, which is typical. The Energy Information [...]
The Arkansas lottery is getting closer to becoming a reality for the states convenience store and gas station customers. Last month, Gov. Mike Beebe signed both the identical Senate and House bills passing the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Act. Arkansas will soon join boardering states Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas in the lottery fraternity, according [...]
Houchens Industries, operator of 215 Save-A-Lot stores and 85 convenience stores, reached a deal to acquire Sheldon’s Express Pharmacies, a two-unit chain based in Bowling Green, Ky. The Sheldon’s units are described as state-of-the- art prescription drug stores that deliver quick service, extremely competitive pricing, and friendly service to their loyal customers. Sheldon’s Express Pharmacy [...]
Meijer is having a Simply Give spring food donation to help stock the shelves of 185 food pantries throughout the Midwest. People can buy $10 donation cards at Meijer stores, gas stations and convenience stores from Sunday to May 30. The donation equates to a typical bag of groceries from Meijer. The chain will seed [...]
Think the U.S. leads the world in beer consumption? Think again. Though America has a larger population than beer-drinking countries like Germany or Britain, the winner in this year’s beer sales sweepstakes is a brew many Americans have probably never heard of: A Chinese beer named Snow. “SAB-Miller was going to roll Snow beer into [...]
Increases on cigarettes have put the category’s long-term viability in jeopardy. By Jim Callahan, Convenience Store Solutions I recently saw a statistic that declared tobacco was no longer king in convenience stores. While that is not yet true for most of us, it’s about to become an indisputable fact. The entire country now gets to [...]
The federal government would for the first time have regulatory powers over the tobacco industry under a bill the House approved today after years of campaigning by anti-smoking forces. The measure, passed 298-112, gives the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate–but not ban–cigarettes and other tobacco products. The Senate could take up its version [...]
As small businesses struggle to weather the economic downturn, California lawmakers are scrambling to temporarily suspend state rules requiring gas station owners to install costly pollution control equipment. California Assemblyman Martin Garrick introduced a proposal Wednesday that would suspend the start date for enforcement of the rules by one year, to April 1, 2010. The [...]
In an effort to capitalize on the growing prepaid gift card trend, MAPCO Express Inc. said it would carry nFinanSe’s Discover Network General Purpose Reloadable Prepaid Cards and Gift Cards at its more than 450 MAPCO Express convenience stores. Consumers can purchase the nFinanSe General Purpose Reloadable Prepaid Card for only $5.95 and conveniently add [...]
Foodservice operators can make a positive contribution to the energy-saving effort and their bottom line by using professional kitchen equipment that features energy saving technology. Through committed research and development, Electrolux Professional has incorporated energy-efficient features into their foodservice equipment that are both operator-friendly and earth-friendly. Energy-conscious operators can use Electrolux air-o-steam combi ovens, both [...]