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Stewart's Shops Kicks Off Annual Holiday Match Program

First day of campaign brought in more than $27,000 in customer donations

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Lawsuit Targets 'Grossly Insolvent' Getty Petroleum

Creditors sue GPMI owners for delivering "utter lack of value," siphoning off funds

But visit frequency declines slightly, says NPD

Reilly Musser knows her customers love the new “hand-to-mouth” confection products—resealable, shareable pouches of unwrapped, bite-sized sweets. Musser, category manager for Santa Clara, Calif.-based Robinson Oil, which has 18 Rotten Robbie c-stores and a few kiosk-type locations, sees the upside of the trend toward bite-sized.

Most of us wonder how we’ve ever survived some of the “questionable” things we have done in our lives and have reached the point that we have grown children and multiple grandchildren (with some in college).

With this column, I am ending 25 years of my day-to-day contact with CSP.

In upstate New York, people know John MacDougall. Maybe not by name, but definitely from TV. He’s the guy in the commercials dodging the jet-propelled cartoon pig, or literally turning blue in the face.

Holding firmly over his head the glass trophy symbolizing his honor as CSP’s 2013 Retail Leader of the Year, John MacDougall exuded the pride of accomplishment both as a motivated human being and as part of the inspired team at Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes.

CST Brands chairman, president, CEO rings NYSE Opening Bell

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