NEW YORK—Retail sales this holiday season should increase between 7% and 9% in 2021, according to Deloitte's annual holiday retail forecast, while e-commerce sales are projected to increase by 11-15% year over year. Holiday retail sales should hit $1.28 trillion to $1.3 trillion ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.— We’re back in business. See what’s in store for the convenience industry’s biggest event of the year. Over four action-packed days, October 5–8, the 2021 NACS Show at McCormick Place in Chicago has a full schedule of activities for everyone on your team. There’s ...
WASHINGTON—President Biden held a meeting with top executives yesterday at the White House to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine mandate he announced to the country last week, reports the Wall Street Journal. Companies represented at the meeting included Disney, Microsoft, Columbia Spo...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Wildfires are increasing in size and frequency each year, and convenience retailers with underground storage tanks (UST) and oil aboveground storage tanks (AST) should take special precautions in the event of a wildfire. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Vietnam is on a COVID-19 lockdown, which is constraining the global coffee supply, reports CNBC. Dealing with its worst COVID-19 breakout, the world’s second-largest producer of coffee is experiencing delays in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s exporting hub. According ...
WASHINGTON—Eighty percent of Americans plan to trick-or-treat this Halloween, according to a survey fielded by the National Confectioners Association (NCA). Eighty-two percent of Americans say they’ll celebrate the 2021 Halloween season, including 93% of millennial parents. The s...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Ten Tesco locations in East England have partnered with Loop, a global reusable packaging platform, reports Packaging Europe. Customers will be able to purchase products in reusable packaging and return the packaging to the store once they are finished to be clean...
By Roy Strasburger ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Many years ago, I took my six-year-old nephew to one of the many tourist shops on the Cornish coast in England. The day had been consumed with playing on the beach and walking the many trails along the coast. My wife and I had spent the day usin...
NEW YORK—DoorDash has filed a lawsuit against the city of New York over a law that would require it to share customer information with restaurants, such as a customer’s name, phone number, email and delivery address, in order for restaurants to complete a customer’s order, report...
RICHMOND, Va.—GPM Investments LLC, a subsidiary of ARKO Corp., has announced store resets of its Wisconsin stores operating under the R Store, Jetz and Bread & Butter Shop banners. The updated layout of the center store planogram resets include more than 300 new items and the lat...
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