Wilson Farms will be giving away FREE coffee from 6 to 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 11th to help support U.S. troops and their families. “Stop into any of our 190 locations on Friday morning and fill up a 12 oz. cup of your favorite coffee or cappuccino for free,” said Paul Nanula, CEO [...]
New unemployment data is revealing why it will take the labor market years to recover from what has been one of its fastest and deepest declines since World War II, even as experts assure us economic recovery is around the corner, the Washington Post reported. On Friday, the Department of Labor released a [...]
Just two months since a $1 tax was tacked onto cigarette packs in Florida on July 1, cigarette sales have plummeted and smokers are driving into neighboring states to avoid the extra expense, Florida Today reported. According to the latest figures from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, cigarette pack sales plunged [...]
Kum & Go has awarded the $50,000 grand prize of its Summer of ’59 promotion to Russell Stutzman of Grimes, Iowa. Kum & Go, which operates more than 428 convenience stores in 12 states celebrated its 50th anniversary this summer by offering customers the chance to win more than $100,000. Kum & Go [...]
Now customers can enter to win Shell V-Power premium gas for a year and a 2010 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Lo Motorcycle through the Shell V-Power “Fuel My Passion” Contest and Sweepstakes. Shell knows customers take pride in their vehicles, and now the company is inviting them to share stories about that passion and [...]
The ability to offer outstanding service remains the industry’s biggest asset. Do whatever it takes to exceed expectations. Doing a late night check on our new Huddle House restaurant attached to a quite awesome BP travel center, I arrived just in time to tackle the concerns of a pretty tough and very tired truck driver [...]
Eight days after Clay County, N.C. voters approved alcohol sales, Hayesville Aztex convenience store welcomed its first beer shipment, making the store the first to sell beer locally in 60 years, the Clay County Press reported. The town had been dry since 1949. By the time the Board of Election certified the [...]
Jenkins Chrysler is selling its Keyser, W.Va., dealership to consolidate sales in LaVale, Md., and Sheetz is buying the property on U.S. 220 south of the city to develop a new and larger convenience store, Mineral-Daily News Tribune reported. ”We were in a unique position with two stores less than 25 miles apart,” [...]
In central Connecticut 65 gasoline stations owned by Green Valley Oil, a private company in Rhode Island, are being converted to the BP brand, the Hartford Courant reported. The move marks one of the largest conversions of its kind in the state. All but 11 of the stations being switched over are [...]
Exxon Mobil Corp. is selling its 25 service stations in Hampton Roads as part of the company’s shift away from owning and operating retail locations, the Virginian-Pilot reported. Exxon has been turning over its gasoline retailing to independent owners and operators because of competition in gasoline retailing and low barriers to entry, said [...]
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor for Telvent DTN Retail gasoline prices will be mixed across the country’s major metropolitan markets during the week leading up to a late Labor Day, with the holiday weekend the traditional conclusion to the summer driving season. After Labor Day, expectations call for a typical decline [...]
Rapidly growing food manufacturer Passport Foods Company Inc. of Denver has selected regional brokers to represent its Tres Picosos burrito line for convenience retailers and distributors in emerging territories. Promark will cover Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Co-Sales will manage Colorado and the Western states, and Putnam PCSS will manage southern [...]
Valero Energy Corp.’s philanthropic organization is donating $2.5 million to support graduate students in engineering and business at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the San Antonio Business Journal reported. “This gift demonstrates the Valero Foundation’s commitment to education in San Antonio,” said Bill Klesse, chairman and CEO of Valero. “It [...]
Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz has opened a new store in Eden, N.C., just North of Greensboro. The new site sits at 102 North Van Buren Road and brings the total number of Sheetz locations in the state to 24. “People in the Greensboro area have been good to us at Sheetz and [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., the operator of Circle K convenience stores, is seeking to double the amount of c-store outlets it operates in the U.S. and Canada during the next few years, the Canada National Post reported. Laval, Quebec-based Couche-Tard, the second-biggest convenience-store chain in the U.S. with 3,858 stores in 43 states and [...]