Is your c-store mobile smart phone payment enabled yet? The game is changing and your cheese is about to be stolen—again! Boy, it sure has been a rough couple of years in the industry, and now that I think about it, the last three years have been rather tough for a good many sectors in [...]
“Working with Clark has been the easiest transition I’ve had in more than 40 years in the business,” says Vining Oil spokesperson. Clark Brands LLC has announced that Vining Oil of Jamestown, N. D., has joined the ranks of Clark-branded marketers. Clark has boarded two Vining stores. The first store features the Clark brand on [...]
CITGO continues support for children’s literacy through sponsorship of 2011 Success In Sight Tour. CITGO Petroleum Corp. continues its support of Tampa, Fla.-based mobile literacy outreach and past Fueling Good winner, Bess the Book Bus, with a sponsorship of its “2011 Success in Sight Tour,” which most recently visited students in Houston. Bess the Book [...]
GIANT Food Store’s convenience store offers fresh meals, groceries and fuel for on-the-go customers in Lancaster, Pa. GIANT Food Stores opened the doors of its second convenience store, GIANT To Go, on Thursday, May 19 at 8 a.m. in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pa. The 4,000 square foot store, located at 2339 Oregon Pike, offers [...]
KESalute.com launches to chronicle military support throughout the Southeast. The Pantry Inc. has teamed up with the USO of North Carolina to salute U.S. troops in Raleigh, Charlotte and Fayetteville in honor of Armed Forces Day on Saturday, May 21. Select Kangaroo Express store locations will host community events featuring military vehicles on-site. In each [...]
Cybera enables delivery of Gilbarco Veeder-Root Passport secure high-speed help desk services and improves speed of service for Gilbarco customers. Cybera Inc., a provider of cloud-based security-as-a-service solutions, has announced the Cybera ONE platform now supports high-speed help desk services for Gilbarco’s Passport point of sale (POS) systems and other Gilbarco applications. This new Cybera [...]
“We realized the need for technology partners like Retalix to help us enhance our IT systems in an effort to better manage our rapid growth and expansion, and to sharpen our competitive edge,” said Wang Bo, vp of PetroChina Sales Co. PetroChina has completed a rollout of Retalix’s StorePoint POS and StorePoint Fuel solutions to [...]
Convenience store operators must stop treating the need for compliance as a nuisance. It is a complex part of the business that must be faced head on. By Pat Pape, Contributing Editor. Just one month ago, Chase, the second-largest U.S. bank, plus a host of other well-known businesses, notified customers that their e-mail addresses had [...]
ConocoPhillips today reported that it has joined the Kickback Points Coalition Loyalty Program. This compelling program will offer Phillips 66, Conoco and 76-branded retailers a turnkey and cost effective loyalty solution. Participating consumers can earn and redeem points instantly for fuel and merchandise purchases at participating Phillips 66, Conoco and 76-branded sites as well as [...]
The convenience and budgeting control features that stored valued products offer holds appeal for a wide range of Americans. By Joe Bush Contributing Editor. Prepaid’s profit potential is fueled by shifts in the marketplace, wider social acceptance and the nation’s growing population of “unbanked” lower-income consumers. And while store-level merchandising and marketing need to be [...]
Irving Oil today announced plans to establish and conduct a convenience store buying group called the Irving Oil Buying Club as part of its new partnership with the Royal Buying Group Inc. “Our goal was to create a convenience retailing solution to provide our Irving distributors and dealers a consistent offering for promotional activities,” said [...]
Five newly opened stores are expected to consume 20% less energy thanks to efficient heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) solutions. By Erin Rigik, associate editor. Kum & Go’s commitment to environmental stewardship has earned it the “Energy Efficiency Leader Award” from Hussmann and Trane, both brands of Ingersoll Rand, for adopting sustainable energy [...]
Campaign total benefits 32 children’s hospitals across 12 states. The Midwest and Great Lakes divisions of Circle K convenience stores raised a total of $1,075,692 for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals during its fundraising campaign April 8-30 in stores across 12 states. The amount raised exceeded Circle K’s 2010 total of $937,213 by nearly14%. “Our goal [...]
By Brian L. Milne, Refined Fuels Editor, Telvent DTN Oil markets are in a state of flux; caught between signs that historically high retail fuel prices are negatively impacting demand for gasoline while global spare oil capacity has narrowed substantially since the start of the year, highlighted by the civil war in Libya, a member [...]
Southeastern c-store chain increases speed of service and enhances marketing initiatives with Radiant technology. RaceTrac Petroleum Inc., a southeastern convenience store chain with more than 300 locations across five states, has selected Radiant Systems Inc. to implement its c-store hardware and software solution. “Radiant technology will help us provide a better guest experience through improved [...]