BRENTWOOD, TENN. — MAPCO has partnered with Grabango, a provider of checkout-free technology for existing stores, to add checkout-free operations to its convenience stores, beginning with two locations in Tennessee.
Grabango’s checkout-free services will be available for shoppers in two Tennessee MAPCO Express c-stores by fall 2022, one of which will be MAPCO’s newly designed format that presents a holistic “store of the future” experience. This marks the first time shoppers in Nashville can save time with checkout-free technology, the companies said.
“Grabango and MAPCO share a vision to simplify things for the on-the-go consumer,” said Will Glaser, CEO of Berkeley, Calif.-based Grabango. “We are excited to bring checkout-free shopping to a new region. As Grabango enters its fifth major metro area, we are pleased to be able to offer this free service to MAPCO’s customers.”
“Our team is constantly thinking of ways to always improve MAPCO’s guest experience,” said Frederic Chaveyriat, CEO at MAPCO. “We’re committed to helping our guests ‘take a better break,’ where they can refresh and recharge at their pace with quality products and services at convenient prices that are more relevant to them, and Grabango’s shopper-focused offering combined with their proven success in the market is why we’ve chosen them to help us execute on our shared vision.”
- MAPCO is No. 25 on CSP’s 2021 Top 202 ranking of U.S. c-store chains by total number of company-owned retail outlets.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based MAPCO, a unit of Compania de Petroleos de Chile (COPEC), operates more than 330 convenience and fuel retailing stores across Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Virginia, Kentucky and Mississippi.
To date, Grabango has signed seven major retail partners, including BP, Circle K and grocer Giant Eagle and its GetGo c-store chain. Combined, the company’s partners represent more than 200 million square feet of retail space, and each of these partners has $1 billion or more in annual revenue. Grabango is expanding rapidly and has already deployed more than 120,000 square feet of shopping floor, it said.
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