In a holiday shopping season some experts forecast to be cloudy, 7-Eleven Inc. has been driving sales with prepaid gaming gift cards. Prepaid gaming gift cards are used to enhance players’ experience in Massively Multi-player Online Games, or MMOGs, a popular activity with hundreds of millions around the world. And 7-Eleven stores have [...]
Whole Foods, Kunze Farms, Willamette Filbert Growers, Evonuk Oregon Hazelnuts, Harry and David, and Mountain Man Nut & Fruit Co. are recalling hazelnuts due to salmonella. Kunze Farms of Dayton, Oregon is recalling 32,950 pounds of hazelnut kernels due to potential contamination by Salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal [...]
Industry leader and longtime NACS employee Teri Richman, 54, died on Saturday, Dec. 19 after a long fight with cancer. Over the course of her 20-plus years at NACS, Richman was involved in nearly every major industry issue and initiative, from defeating beer-gas bans in the mid-1980s, to improving store security in the [...]
Wendy’s International is taking its first steps into the world of mobile coupons with help from partner Options Media Group Holdings, a services provider for on-demand e-mail marketing, Brandweek reported. Through the new campaign, customers in the Northeast can opt in for mobile coupons and ads, which arrive via text message, in return [...]
The American Petroleum Institute is fighting the Tennessee Renewable Fuels Blending Act, set to begin Jan. 1, the Tennessee Business Journal reported. The legislation, which passed 88-5 in the state House and 28-1 in the state Senate this year provides Tennessee businesses with a greater chance to profit from renewable fuels and requires [...]
Tri Star Energy LLC of Nashville, Tenn., is planning a strategic divestiture of a number of convenience stores and retail gasoline outlets in Tennessee. NRC Realty & Capital Advisors LLC will conduct the sale. Proceeds from the divestiture will be used for expansion and acquisition opportunities currently available to the company. The preliminary [...]
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN The U.S. retail gasoline price average moved off a two-month low at $2.56 gallon reached midway through December, and is again climbing on higher crude costs in front of the Christmas holiday, driven by advances in the financial oil markets. Crude costs were leaking [...]
Tedeschi Food Shops, the Rockland, Mass.-based convenience store chain, has opened a new store in Everett, Mass., the Boston Globe reported. The new store is located at 2029 Revere Beach Parkway and marks the chain’s 189th location and its fourth store in Everett, Mass. “In addition to wide assortments of snacks and [...]
Florida gas station owners are rushing to get their underground fuel storage tanks replaced with double-walled tanks by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Dec. 31 deadline in an effort to avoid fines or a court-ordered shutdown of their gas pumps, the Palm Beach Post reported. Industry experts predict 5-18% of stations won’t [...]
Tedeschi Food Shops, the Rockland, Mass.-based convenience store chain, has opened a new store in Everett, Mass., the Boston Globe reported. The new store is located at 2029 Revere Beach Parkway and marks the chain’s 189th location and its fourth store in Everett, Mass. “In addition to wide assortments of snacks and [...]
Holiday Companies has signed a contract renewal with McLane for supply chain services to its 458 Holiday c-stores throughout 12 states in the northern tier region of the U.S., continuing the companies’ successful seven-year relationship. McLane’s Minnesota and Northwest facilities will continue to support distribution of a broad line of products for Holiday [...]
Since 1963, 7-Eleven stores have kept round-the-clock hours, and today about 99% of the more than 5,800 U.S. stores stay open on Dec. 25. For people who need to prepare a family recipe, wrap a last-minute present, shoot a baby’s first Christmas picture or operate a new toy, their neighborhood 7-Eleven store stands ready to [...]
Since 1963, 7-Eleven stores have kept round-the-clock hours, and today about 99% of the more than 5,800 U.S. stores stay open on Dec. 25. For people who need to prepare a family recipe, wrap a last-minute present, shoot a baby’s first Christmas picture or operate a new toy, their neighborhood 7-Eleven store stands ready to [...]
Kum & Go has entered a new distribution agreement with ACUTEfruit, Monarch Beverages’ nutrient-enhanced 100% fruit juice energy beverage, and plans to expand carriage of the product, sales and promo agreements throughout the Midwest in 2010 at its Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and North and South Dakota locations. The chain will put the beverage [...]
The mobile coupon is one of the many new ways to advertise to a new generation of cell phone-toting customers. 7-Eleven is almost finished with its two-month trial of mobile coupons, which it debuted in 200 stores San Diego in November, and the chain is preparing to extend the trial. 7-Eleven has avoided [...]