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Mike Lawshe hates it when a c-store client says it’s “just” a convenience store. Lawshe, president and CEO of Paragon Solutions, a retail design firm based in Fort Worth, Texas, sees merit in look...

Thirsting for Innovation: Consumer Perspectives on C-Store Prepared Beverage report page

It’s not easy being the small guy. There’s the squeeze of regulations, escalating demands of customers and crush of competition from larger chains with more capital and resources. The challenges ar...

CSP’s Top 202 details the largest chains in the convenience-store industry and the biggest M&A stories of the past year based on Technomic data. Welcome to a deep dive into the c-store landscape.

Operators in the retail, noncommercial and restaurant segments are feeling pretty good about the state of their industries.

Here, CSP distills the data, the trends and the technologies that are reconfiguring the c-store industry’s place in retailing.

From new flavors and combinations to put between two pieces of bread—or not bread at all—here’s a look at 30 sandwiches that sound good to us.

Check out the consumer data that will help retailers supercharge the category.

CSP gathered customer ratings of c-store coffee brands using Technomic Ignite consumer data.

CSP outlines the opportunity in CBD products and how they vary from their cannabis cousin.

For the second annual Power 20, CSP features retailers who understand the shifting needs of the consumer and are thoughtfully working to meet it with the help of tech and vision.

Convenience-store retailers are immersed in a time of short-term plenty that may at any time give way to new rules of retail success.

In a retail age in which disruptors are diluting the convenience shopping occasion with one-click ordering and home delivery, traditional retailers are pausing to ask: Who are we? Who do we need to become? When it comes to convenience today and in the future, can we deliver?