AutoTrader Classics, an online and print resource for car collectors and classic car enthusiasts, is launching a multi-prong campaign on Aug. 30 to reach consumers and bring awareness to the company’s print publications in retail locations. The campaign is aimed at driving classic car enthusiasts to retail locations across 17 local markets to pick up [...]
Gilbarco Veeder-Root will be hosting free Passport point of sale (POS) system training and also demonstrating remote diagnostics and help desk at the NACS Show, Oct. 6-8 in Atlanta, bringing key benefits of the system to the show floor. Current Passport users can take advantage of free Passport POS training “How to operate Passport in [...]
XYIENCE is offering Circle K convenience store shoppers in select states the chance to win a new Harley-Davidson Sportster 883 Low in a text message sweepstakes contest. The contest, which launches Sept. 1 and runs through Oct.31, includes participating stores in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Legal residents of [...]
Inc. magazine has revealed its fourth annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy-America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Music Web site Pandora, convenience store chain 7-Eleven, Brooklyn Brewery, and Radio Flyer, maker of the iconic children’s red wagon, [...]
The California state fire marshal has ordered about 3,000 gas stations-one-third of all stations in the state-to remove the latches on gas nozzles that allow people to fill up their tanks while keeping their hands free by Oct. 15, the Associated Press reported. The mandate was put in place after the hold-open latches on at [...]
Carrollton, Texas -based Tidel Engineering L.P. has announced its newest Sentinel Cash Management module, the Tidel Sentinel SCD-XL (Sentinel Control Device – extra long cassette). The Sentinel SCD-XL stores approximately 4,500 U.S. notes within a two-cassette cabinet, thus doubling the note capacity that has been available in the industry for many years. The SCD-XL offers [...]
YoCream International Inc. raised $8,000 for the Brian Grant Foundation at a fundraising event held at its company store in Portland. YoCream announced that all sales revenue generated on July 31 at the YoCream Frozen Yogurt Company Store would go to support Parkinson’s awareness, education and research and Portlanders showed up in crowds to show [...]
You might say that Mark Shaffer’s tank was running on empty, figuratively speaking. Really he was running out of time to come forward as the latest winner in Rutter’s Farm Stores’ summer gas giveaway. Shaffer, of Spring Garden Township, York County, Pa., had been away on vacation when his winning Rutter’s Rewards card number was [...]
York, Pa.-based Rutter’s Holdings Inc. climbed to No. 3 in the 2010 rankings of the Top 100 Private Companies in Central Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Rutter’s Holdings ranked second among private companies in York County, Pa. Rutter’s Holdings—the parent company of Rutter’s Farm Stores, Rutter’s Dairy and real estate holding company M&G Realty—ranked fifth in 2009. Family-owned [...]
With a month till the annual Casey’s shareholders’ meeting on Sept. 23, a war of words is underway, with Casey’s and Couch-Tard vying for shareholder votes and fighting to prove they have the most to offer shareholders. In response to Couche-Tard’s most recent letter of appeal to shareholders, asking them elect its slate of eight [...]
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is planning to open eight stores in Northern California-including in the San Francisco Bay Area and Modesto, in early 2011. These stores, will the company’s first stores north of Fresno and will create about 160 jobs in the region, bringing access to fresh, wholesome food at affordable prices to new [...]
Kwik Trip Stores are helping raise funds for Habitat for Humanity, pledging to donate 15% of in-store purchases made with a special Rewards Card to the Merrill, Wis., Habitat for Humanity, Wausau Daily Herald reported. Those who sign up for the cards will receive a $30 credit to spend at any Kwik Trip store. Sign-up forms will [...]
Convenience TV Inc. has achieved a viewership milestone with the completion of its latest network installations. The company has now expanded to offer its product in 28 retail outlets in the greater Los Angeles area. “This is an exciting moment for us at Convenience TV, as our newest client base offers the company a monthly [...]
Opposition to AB 1998, “bag ban bill,” is growing rapidly across the state of California. Hundreds of businesses, many of them small grocers and retailers have joined forces with manufacturing associations, chambers of commerce and plastic bag makers statewide to send a clear message to the state government: start focusing on the real problems facing [...]
Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN Wholesale gasoline prices were mostly lower in major metropolitan markets across the United States for the week-ended Aug. 23, auguring for another weekly decline in the national gasoline average. The Energy Information Administration last reported a 3.8 cents decline in the average price for all formulations of [...]