Quick Chek, which operates 120 fresh food store locations throughout New Jersey and southern New York, is currently offering flu shots, free of charge, to each of its 2,300 employees. In addition, the company’s new 2009 flu shot program, an extension of its Fit for Life preventive employee health services initiative, also provides [...]
As fall sets in and the weather gets colder, Kum & Go understands the plight of waking up, which prompted it to release its fall promotion Fight Morning Face. The promotion, which began at the start of October and will continue to run through November 30, encourages those with puffy eyes and bad [...]
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN The seasonal trend for US retail gasoline prices remains down, but the pace of the decline will likely slow due to climbing crude oil prices. Additionally, oil refiners are expected to throttle back output for maintenance programs through the Thanksgiving holiday, limiting supply that should [...]
Visa hosted a webinar to clarify its PIN pad data encryption policy on Sept 9 led by Ross Snailer and Stoddard Lambertson of Visa’s Payment Risk team, NACS reported. According to Visa, all attended POS and kiosks must be Triple DES (TDES) compliant by July 1, 2010, but that fines to acquirers would [...]
Gilbarco Veeder-Root will be hosting independent PCI consulting firms Coalfire IT Audit and Compliance and W. Capra Consulting Group at NACS. Retailers and their Gilbarco Veeder-Root distributors who have prescheduled appointments will receive 45 minutes of free consulting time, personalized PCI risk assessments and advice on PCI DSS, PA-DSS, and PED plans for [...]
Sheetz has been testing Gilbarco’s Wisdom Intelligent Device Management (IDM) system at multiple sites since May. Pending sustained favorable results seen in the preliminary tests, Sheetz anticipates rolling the solution to all 360 sites across their enterprise. “IDM ties our reporting systems and controls together, while giving us peace of mind that every [...]
The Mega Millions consortium and Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) have reached an agreement to cross-sell Mega Millions and Powerball in all U.S. lottery jurisdictions. Currently each lottery state has Powerball or Mega Millions, but never both. The decision is an agreement in principal. Details need to be worked out to ensure the final [...]
7-Eleven is testing out a new banana strategy at 27 Dallas-area locations, using a new plastic wrap developed by supplier Fresh Del Monte Produce to keep single bananas yellow and firm for five days-more than double the two-day shelf life for an unwrapped banana, ABC News reported. “Our customers want yellow bananas, not [...]
McLane Grocery, a division of McLane Company Inc.’s New Jersey division has received Food Logistics‘ Golden Pallet award for foodservice distribution in the convenience store wholesaler category, Reuters reported. The annual Golden Pallet Awards, sponsored by Food Logistics magazine, are the first industry awards to recognize excellence in warehousing. The award for foodservice distribution [...]
New regulations are being discussed in South Los Angeles to limited the development of new c-stores due to the link between snack foods (found in abundance at c-stores) and obesity in poor communities, the Los Angeles Times reported. The proposed regulations expand on last year’s restrictions on new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile [...]
Quick Chek Store Leader Kahtan Barsbay (center) presents the donation to the Wantage Township Volunteer Fire Department along with District Leader Liz Sachtleben (to the right of Barsbay) and Leader in Training Donna Ehrmas (far right). To conclude the celebration of its latest store opening in Wantage, N.J., Quick Chek presented a donation totaling [...]
Tips, thoughts and reminders to enhance your NACS Show experience. Move over Ringling Brothers because the NACS Show is indeed “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Beyond the night life, parties, shows and the glitter of the Las Vegas lights lies, by far, the best and most comprehensive trade show and conference in the industry for [...]
Flavored products including cigarettes, RYO and loose tobaccos and rolling papers are no longer legal in U.S. stores; administration said it would look at “little cigars” and similar products on a “case-by-case basis.” The smoking lamp on the majority of flavored tobacco products sold in convenience stores has been extinguished, but the ruling has ignited [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has filed a complaint for permanent injunction against Rel’s Foods Inc. of Oakland, Calif., seeking to stop the company from manufacturing, producing and selling adulterated food products. The complaint also names Rel’s Vice President, Peder Scott Sorensen, and [...]
Hobart, Ind.-based Luke Oil adopted a new logo to symbolize its commitment to customer service, but the chain may have inadvertently replicated a logo stamped on products that are judged kosher, reported the Northwest Indiana Times. The company is changing the logo, after an Orthodox Jewish group filed a trademark infringement suit [...]