Illinois MotoMart Celebrates After Selling Winning Lottery Ticket

Posted on April 10, 2012 by CSD Staff

Nine c-store employees at the Red Bull, Ill. store will get a chunk of the winnings. A MotoMart convenience store in southern Illinois that sold one of three lottery tickets that won a share of the world-record $656 million Mega Millions jackpot is celebrating this week. Illinois Lottery Superintendent Michael Jones presented the MotoMart convenience [...]

Smokeless Sales Stay Strong

Posted on October 1, 2009 by CSD Staff

Sorting through all of the dynamics at work in the smokeless tobacco category is proving a complex calculation for convenience store operators and consumers alike. For example: retail prices rose with the April 1 passage of an increase to the Federal Excise Tobacco (FET) tax to fund an expansion of SCHIP, the State Children’s Health [...]