GetGo Café+Market is embarking on a multi-state spring hiring campaign, as it looks to add 500 new jobs. Candidates will have the opportunity to apply for jobs at GetGo Café+Market as part of an in-person and virtual spring hiring campaign May 4-6. GetGo is hiring hourly team members, overnight team members and shift supervisors in…
Enmarket Teams With Veteran Carries for “Feed a Trucker” Campaign
Enmarket has partnered with Savannah-based trucking firm Veteran Carriers to celebrate a group of unsung heroes of the pandemic — the trucking community — with its “Feed a Trucker” campaign, which will provide a series of free lunches to truckers throughout 2021. The Feed a Trucker program will involve participating groups gathering at the Enmarket…
Rebel’s Refreshed Design Propels Brand Toward Expansion
Six years after acquiring the Rebel convenience store brand, Upland, Calif.-based Anabi Oil is embarking on an ambitious remodel, with plans to revamp half of its 400-plus convenience stores in California and Nevada in under five years, bringing them under a refreshed Rebel design. Simultaneously, it’s preparing to expand its footprint outside of California and…
Rutter’s Introduces SPAM LTO
Rutter’s and Hormel Foods are bringing some innovation to their long-standing partnership by adding the food company’s iconic SPAM family of products to Rutter’s featured food menu for a limited time. The new SPAM brand menu, which will be available through July, includes seven featured food items available at the Rutter’s kiosk and hot hold.…
Survey Finds Customers Prefer Touchless Restrooms
Three in five Americans (60%) say automated paper towel dispensers in public restrooms would improve their perception of a facility’s cleanliness, according to a survey commissioned by Sofidel, a provider of paper for hygienic and domestic use. The survey, conducted online by The Harris Poll from April 14-16, 2021 among 2,050 U.S. adults ages 18…
Dates Announced for 2022 ‘Export Exchange’ Event
Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor, U.S. Grains Council President and CEO Ryan LeGrand and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) President Geoff Cooper issued a joint statement regarding the 2022 Export Exchange event, to be held Oct. 12-14, 2022 in Minneapolis: “COVID dictated we cancel Export Exchange in 2020, and sadly, we have officially cancelled it…
GPM to Hire 3,000 Employees by the End of 2021
Richmond, Va.-based GPM Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of ARKO Corp., is currently looking to hire 3,000 employees throughout the company this year. There are currently open positions in its stores located in several states, including full-time and part-time opportunities at all levels. This serves as the company’s latest move to offer more opportunities for…
FDA Moves to Ban Menthol Cigarettes, Flavored Cigars
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it will begin the process of banning menthol tobacco cigarettes, as well as all flavored cigars. The ban would not include menthol-flavored electronic cigarettes. “Banning menthol — the last allowable flavor — in cigarettes and banning all flavors in cigars will help save lives, particularly among those disproportionately…
CrossAmerica Acquires 106 C-Stores From 7-Eleven
CrossAmerica Partners LP announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain convenience store properties from 7-Eleven for an aggregate cash purchase price of $263 million, subject to certain adjustments. The sites to be acquired consist of company-operated sites that are being sold by 7-Eleven as part of a divestiture process in…
Fountain Beverage Sales Heat Up
Around this time last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, c-store retailers found themselves scrambling to implement changes to keep dispensed beverage sales flowing, despite local lockdown orders. Now, many locations are again making adjustments as rules and regulations ease. Pilot Flying J stores temporarily modified their self-serve stations into crew-served ones to satisfy state…