Kelly Kurt

Consumer backlash helps drive lawmakers away from tobacco taxes.

On the hunt for a good fit, acquirers send multiples soaring.

An impressive 4,200 convenience stores—almost 3% of the entire channel—traded hands last year. CSP takes a two-part look at this unprecedented climate, exploring the fault lines that spurred recent mammoth buys and what’s in store for a shell-shocked but undeniably optimistic channel.

In a June forum sponsored by Scientific Games, in which CSP was the sole media invited, managers of lottery sales for several major U.S. c-store chains acknowledged their pains and shared a Rodney Dangerfield-style lament about the category getting no respect. And they shared something else: the belief that the lottery holds untapped potential to bolster the bottom line.

As gasoline demand slowly fades, retailers place their bets on the next big fuel

How a Wisconsin chain is strengthening the forecourt-store connection