Customers can look forward to a clean and friendly environment with foods such as fresh sandwiches, salads, fruit and more. The new store features a redesigned look with a greater focus on fresh food, fountain drinks and hot beverages. This includes Thorntons' roller grill bar design featuring items such as hot dogs, corndogs and more. It offers [image-nocss] a large variety of hot, cold and frozen beverages that are made with 100% filtered water. It offers coffee and frozen Icee flavors.
And it has top-quality products at grocery store sizes, competitive prices, as well as 100% guaranteed fuel.
Many promotions will take place in the first 30 days following the grand re-opening celebration.
Customers can expect free 32-oz. fountain drinks, free 20-oz. coffee, as well as many Buy 1 Get 1 Free specials. Beginning on Saturday, November 27, there will be several "doorbuster" giveaways that include free RedBox DVD rental coupons, free two-liter soda, Thorntons coffee mugs and more.
This new store will also offer the environmentally friendly E85 (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) Flex Fuel. Thorntons has 27 locations throughout the company with E85 Flex Fuel and plans to expand this product to additional stores in the future.
"We are thrilled about the grand opening of our newest store," said Matt Thornton, CEO of Thorntons. "Our goal is to provide our customers with a unique shopping experience. From our world class Coffee, to our high quality fresh food and value priced snack, beverage and grocery products, we hope to delight our customers with an enjoyable one-stop shopping experience."
Louisville, Ky.-based Thorntons is a leading independent gasoline/convenience chain retailer, marketing throughout the Midwest. It is one of Kentucky's largest privately held companies, with more than $1.4 billion in annual revenue. It operates 165 gasoline/c-stores, one travel plaza and eight car washes. The company also distributes petroleum products through the wholly owned Thornton Transportation Co. and operates a river bulk storage terminal in Louisville.
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