Alvin New, former Town & Country Food Stores CEO, said his background has provided him with the skills he needs to be San Angelo’s next mayor, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported. New noted that his extensive background in business will be essential as the city begins facing issues, such as infrastructure and water [...]
Gulf Oil L.P. is appealing to sports enthusiasts, while providing its site owners with more must-have products by partnering with Sportsline Distributors Inc. to offer licensed collectibles for the everyday sports fan. “Our extensive and unique selection of merchandise is proven to help drive customer traffic, and we look forward to working with Gulf to [...]
The National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO) is responding to tough New York City proposed ordinances on tobacco. NATO sent each New York City Council member a letter opposing a proposed ordinance that would ban the sale of flavored tobacco products, including flavored cigarettes, flavored cigars and flavored chewing tobacco. NATO also followed [...]
No more gentle warnings from cigarette packs. New labels are set to include gruesome color photographs showing a cancer-ridden mouth, blackened lungs, and a foot rotten with gangrene to drive home the dangers of smoking, the Washington Post reported. Under the new the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, tobacco companies must cover [...]
Savannah, Ga.-based Enmark Stations Inc. has hired NRC Realty & Capital Advisors LLC to coordinate the sale of 20 retail petroleum sites being divested by the company. The sale portfolio consists of operating retail gasoline stations in a variety of formats, including full convenience stores, some with kiosk only, and some with carwashes. [...]
Self-made millionaire, Richard Johnson, who built Johnson Oil Co. and the former Bigfoot c-store chain, has died at age 76, Indystar.com reported. Mr. Johnson founded oil distributor Johnson Oil Co. in Columbus, Ind. in 1957 with a $10,000 loan co-signed by his father. In 1981, he saw gas stations were evolving into convenience [...]
Wawa Inc. is celebrating its newest addition-a brand new store in Wilmington, Del. On Friday, Aug. 7, Wawa executives and local officials will officially open the new Wawa store with a ceremonial ribbon cutting. Then, to mark the grand opening of the new store, Wawa has challenged the Mill Creek Fire Department and [...]
A new Illinois candy tax is already causing confusion, a whole month before it is set to hit customers, the Chicago Tribune reported. The state candy tax, slated to go into affect on Sept. 1, is being put into affect to help pay for a $31 billion public works program Illinois Gov. Pat [...]
Pantry Inc. has announced its financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended June 25, 2009. The Pantry’s net income for the quarter totaled $43,000 or $0.00 per share, down from $10.7 million ($0.48 per share on a diluted basis) in the third quarter of 2008. The company reported that its EBITDA [...]
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has chosen Bit9 Parity, a leader in Enterprise Application Whitelisting to help achieve compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), and to proactively protect its retail store systems from targeted, zero-day attacks. Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores operate more than 200 travel stop [...]
First Niagara Financial Group is branding 95 automated teller machines at Sheetz stores in western Pennsylvania starting next month, according to Pittsburghlive.com. Customers will be glad to learn the new ATMs at Sheetz will not have surcharges, according to First Niagara, which is based in Buffalo, N.Y. and operates 113 branches and 136 [...]
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor for Telvent DTN Gasoline prices will move higher in early August at retail outlets across the country’s major metropolitan regions as pass-through costs from the wholesale markets make their way towards the pumps. Prices are moving higher despite ample supply of gasoline while demand remains down year-to-date [...]
Coinstar Inc., Bellevue, Wash., and The Kroger Co., which operates 2,475 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 31 states and 764 c-stores, are joining forces to expand the presence of redbox, fully-automated DVD rental kiosks at Kroger-operated stores nationwide. Redbox DVD kiosks are currently available at more than 200 Kroger locations, and more than [...]
MAPCO Express Inc., Brentwood, Tenn., has already awarded 50 customers each $1,200 in company gift cards as part of MAPCO’s Daily Gas Giveaway contest. To date, MAPCO Express, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delek US Holdings Inc., which operates a network of nearly 500 gasoline and c-stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, [...]
Susser Holdings Corp. Corpus Christi, Texas, has agreed to acquire 25 convenience stores located in Texas and Louisiana. Susser Holdings Corp. is a third-generation family led business that operates more than 515 convenience stores in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma under the Stripes and Town & Country banners, and also supplies branded motor [...]