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Behind the C-Store Industry's 2016 Top-Line Growth

RaceTrac's Billy Milam explains the record sales from 2016

CHICAGO -- "We have three years in a row where we’ve had significant increases in profits," Billy Milam, president of RaceTrac Petroleum, Atlanta, said in highlighting the $10.2 billion in pretax profits the convenience-store industry saw in 2016. "We shouldn't be anywhere close to this."

So what drove a year of record in-store sales? Milam broke it down during NACS' 2017 State of the Industry Summit in Chicago.

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