Beer sales are hot right now and driving the push are specialty brews and imports. By Howard Riell, Associate Editor. Consumer interest in more flavorful food and beverages has led, among other things, to the rise of craft beers. Retailers: Start your engines. Craft beers offer more challenging tastes, authenticity and often even a quirkiness…
Premium E-Cigarette
Kretek International Inc. offers a new line of CIG2O e-cigarette products. The CIG2O rechargeable water vapor cigarette was developed in the U.S. for Kretek by Spark Industries. CIG2O e-cigarettes were successfully launched in smoke shops early in 2010. The strength of adult consumer response led to the current nationwide roll out. The initial product line…
What’s On Your Customer’s C-Store Shopping List?
Jeff Weghorst, director of merchandising at dunnhumbyUSA. One of the primary drivers behind a customer’s willingness to transact with a retailer is product selection. If a customer does not encounter an appealing assortment of products in-store, they are highly unlikely to engage even once with the retailer, and much less likely to become a loyal…
Maverik Opens New Arizona Store
After a grand opening celebration last week, the new location is now open around the clock. Maverik Convenience Stores, with 220 locations in seven Western states, debuted its newest location on Thursday, Oct. 27 in Pinetop-Lakeside, Ariz., marking its third location in the greater Eastern Arizona area, White Mountain Independent Online reported. The new store…
7-Eleven, Greyhound Partner To Launch PayNearMe
PayNearMe allows customers to book bus trips online or with cash, a change that is especially advantageous to the un-banked and underbanked. 7-Eleven Inc. and Greyhound, the largest North American provider of intercity bus transportation, have partnered to allow customers nationwide to purchase bus tickets online or over the phone with cash, giving them access…
Grocery Stores Utilize Cloud Hosting Platform
Using store specific characteristics and actual/planned volume, retailers can produce budgets, forecasts etc., that are not impacted by inflation trends or legacy metrics. Three grocery retailers have recently selected Logile’s enterprise labor planning and execution management solutions. Two are utilizing Logile’s SaaS cloud hosting platform. The new Logile customers include two regional supermarket chains with…
FedEx Giveaway Benefits Small Business
Visit the FedEx Facebook page today to get your free gift card. Starting Nov. 1, FedEx plans to distribute $1 million in gift cards to be used at small businesses on Small Business Saturday. The free gift cards – each worth $25 – will be distributed through www.facebook.com/FedEx starting at 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday,…
Local Store Marketing: Greetings & Suggestive Sales
By John Matthews, founder and president of Gray Cat Enterprises Inc. With any size retailer, getting customer trial at your store is the easy part. If the store owner throws out a compelling offer – perhaps a free deal – customers will come to your store to “check you out.” This is fairly straight forward,…
NACS CAFÉ is Calling
With foodservice taking on an expanded role in convenience stores, retailers can utilize NACS CAFÉ to learn about best practices, new ideas and emerging solutions. By John Lofstock, Editor. Foodservice now accounts for nearly one in every six dollars spent inside convenience stores. Getting foodservice right is no longer just a challenge, it is absolutely…
New Lagunas Premium Cigarettes
Kretek International Inc. has launched Lagunas brand premium imported cigarettes by Djarum in the U.S. The Lagunas blend was developed by an international team from Djarum and Kretek over a two-year period of blending and testing. Lagunas’ taste is characterized by a unique combination of tobaccos from the U. S., Brazil Indonesia, Turkey and Greece,…