Top 50 Most Effective Fuel Brands

The most effective fuel brands in convenience retailing
Top 50 Most Effective Fuel Brands

MAPCO Express

Owned by COPEC of Chile and a new entry to the Fuels 50, MAPCO operates under the banners MAPCO Express, MAPCO Mart, Fast Food and Fuel, Favorite Markets, Delta Express and Discount Food Mart.

Top 50 Most Effective Fuel Brands

Weigel’s

Weigel’s Stores Inc., Powell, Tenn., operates a c-store chain, dairy and bakery.

Delta Sonic, known as the “Kissing Car Wash” for its lip-print logo, is a family-owned business that operates units with car washes, gasoline and convenience-store items.

The Lake Jackson, Texas-based chain is known for its massive fuel islands with dozens of dispensers, 70,000-square-foot convenience stores and award-winning restrooms.

With a market efficiency more than four times the industry average, Sheetz Inc. is one of the most potent fuel retailers in the United States.

Royal Farms’ RoFo Rewards program helps drive volumes, awarding points for every gallon purchased or dollar spent inside the store. If members link their rewards account to their checking account, they can earn 10 CPG in fuel savings.

Wawa relies on its entire brand offer, highlighted by an industry-leading foodservice program, to be competitive. Its gasoline price differential in 2017 was 3.11 cents per gallon lower than the competition, an half-a-cent improvement over the previous year, according to OPIS.

Atlanta-based RaceTrac is adding to its fuel offer. In 2016, RaceTrac began adding E15 to the first of more than 100 sites in Florida, Georgia and Texas, and in 2017 became the first retailer to offer the ethanol-gasoline blend in Louisiana.

QuikTrip scored third place in CSP's Fuels 50 for a second year in a row, even as it gasoline price differential dipped from -2.79 CPG to -2.31.

QuickChek continues to improve its c-store offer, including a format introduced in 2017 with the millennial in mind, complete with self-checkout and phone and laptop charging stations. On the forecourt, the newest sites feature a brightly lit fuel island with 16 fueling positions.

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