The Year's Best New Convenience Stores (2016)
Dec. 15, 2016CHICAGO -- Each month, CSP magazine features a new-to-industry convenience store in its pages, seeking to uncover the best in store design for retailers across North America.
Here, CSP Daily News presents the best Grand Openings of the year...
Lone Star Food Store
Sherman, Texas-based Douglass Distributing reopened its remodeled Lone Star Food Store in Denison, Texas, in October 2015 with an enviable collection of new merchandising areas and a new foodservice concept.
"We expanded the store from 2,400 square feet to 6,300 square feet, while never actually closing the store," said Lone Star CEO Diane McCarty.
Click here to look inside the former Circle K site.
Spinx
The Spinx convenience-store chain opened a new 6,800-square-foot site in South Carolina this spring based on a store design developed in 2012.
Architecturally, the store features high, open ceilings; clear lines of sight from the entryway; and bright, inviting colors and materials.
Outside, customers can fill their cars' gas tanks at eight fuel pumps or take advantage of the on-site car wash. Inside, the store features the chain's Fresh on the Go program, a new made-to-order smoothie station and touchscreen kiosk ordering.
Click here to take a look inside the store.
Breeze Thru Market
Six years after abandoning convenience-store operations, Cary Oil is back at it with a new store design and 14 sites.
Click here to look inside this 4,100-square-foot store that features a quick-service restaurant, beer cave, enhanced lighting and nice bathrooms.
Pops 66
The new Pops 66 c-store measures 5,000 square feet, inviting locals and road trippers alike to linger, gravitating away from the quick-turnaround focus of traditional c-stores.
Click here for a look inside the unique store.
Kum & Go
West Des Moines, Iowa-based Kum & Go is bringing its new prototype convenience stores to Missouri and other markets. At 6,200 square feet, the stores are almost 1,200 square feet larger than the company's previous “5K” design.
Click here for a look around.
Maverik
Maverik convenience stores' new store format emphasizes the brand's lens on Adventure's First Stop with a deeper emphasis on bringing the outdoors inside.
Click here for a look at how canoes hanging from its store ceilings and loyalty-club giveaways ranging from a Lamborghini to a boat are helping the Salt Lake City-based chain stand out.