Independents

General Merchandise/HBC

Walgreens Names Top Merchandise Exec

Filler filling role of president of retail products, chief merchandising officer

Foodservice

Wawa to Feature Coca-Cola Freestyle

Will roll out touch-screen soda fountains in all locations by May 2015

Workers stage strikes, wage protests nationwide

Prices hit level not seen in years, and other states may soon follow

Sam L. Susser's Stripes Convenience Stores network has delivered on 25 consecutive years of same-store growth, built a history of paying down debt with profit and consistently produced above-average yields for its investors, a run capped off by a 40% return after last April’s $1.8 billion deal with Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) and its parent Energy Transfer Equity (ETE). In October, Susser was names CSP's Retail Leader of the Year.

Skin cancer affects thousands, including members of the c-store industry

Mid-State Energy partners with Protec Fuel to introduce ethanol blend

We in the convenience-store industry have an awful lot to be proud of. So my hat is off to NACS for making our industry’s perception one of the association’s key focuses in the coming year and beyond.

Existing convenience-store food offerings are plain and perceived as unhealthy. To what extent should c-stores pursue health trends in new offerings?

When you have the opportunity to rekindle relationships long since ended, please do so. Because it truly does turn out that they never ended—they were just waiting for a time to begin again.

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