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Fuels: Put a Molecule in Your Tank

After years of claims that hydrogen fuel-cell technology was about to debut—only to be delayed—it appears we now have a firm date: 2015. That’s when Toyota, Honda and Hyundai plan to introduce hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEV) to the mass market, and California hopes to open the first network of about 37 hydrogen-fueling stations in the country. The hard part? Getting those fueling stations open.

Technology/Services

Sunoco Selects WEX Fleet One

Will serve as over-the-road fleet fueling card partner

Retailer groups praise signing of BuySecure executive order on financial security

With EMV (EuroPay, MasterCard and Visa) timelines quickly approaching the convenience-store and retail-petroleum industries, POS system providers, pump providers and merchants are preparing for the October 2015 liability shift for in-store systems and the October 2017 liability shift for automated fuel dispensers. As retailers become acquainted with EMV and the needed system enhancements to support EMV, they soon learn that EMV can be a time-intensive and costly endeavor.

The history of technological advancement shows that once we experience progress, we never like returning to the status quo. One of my favorite examples of this is a significant western states convenience retailer that began reviewing sales margins by item multiple times per day.

Technology exhibitors expand cloud ability, cellphone options

How Maverik confronted, and improved upon, its legacy stores using the 80-20 rule.

NACS Show sessions cover loyalty, along with data sharing, security

Commodities jostle retailers’ margins as food prices skyrocket, oil stabilizes

Desire to disprove notion that "all convenience stores are the same" driving transformation

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