PITTSBURGH—GetGo Café + Market has expanded its Thanksgiving dinner-themed offerings to include the Pilgrim Go Bowl and the Pilgrim Go Ritto. The c-store already offers the Pilgrim Sub, which is a Thanksgiving dinner on a sandwich roll, but now customers can get a Pilgrim Go Bowl...
WASHINGTON—Sales of chocolate in 2020 were strong, according to a new report by the National Confectioners Association, with chocolate accounting for about 60% of all confectionery sales in the U.S. The report, “Getting to Know Chocolate Consumers 2021: Exploring Consumer Demogra...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—NACS, along with five other retail associations, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking the agency to release the names of the R.J. Reynolds products for which it issued marketing denial orders (MDOs). The letter follows yesterday’s FDA app...
This article is brought to you by Invenco, a NACS Hunter Club member. ALEXANDRIA, Va.—With the April 2021 EMV upgrade deadline past, many retailers still have not upgraded their outdoor payment terminals to be EMV compliant. Lower-volume, independently owned sites are upgrading a...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Shipt, an online delivery company owned by Target, is differentiating itself in the delivery industry through customer relations and the gig workers it employs, according to CNBC. Same-day service sales for Shipt more than quadrupled year over year in the fiscal y...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Kevin Smith admits that he has “an obsession with convenience stores”—one that has been going on since the debut of his movie “Clerks” in 1994. The iconic movie, largely set at a Quick Stop Groceries in Leonardo, N.J., is probably the best-known movie about conven...
COLUMBUS, Ga.—A Georgia police department is warning its community about a scam alert specifically targeting convenience stores, reports WMTV. Columbus, Ga., c-stores are receiving phone calls from scammers posing as law enforcement officers and tricking the businesses out of tho...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—"We Card now more than ever” is the message from retailers who participated in September’s We Card Awareness Month. We Card—now in its 26th year—reminded retailers of four key action steps to make sure they’re doing all they can do to prevent underage sales of tob...
By Keith Reid CHICAGO—The NACS Show educational session Disappearing Gallons: Cause and Effect, sponsored by Fuels Market News, explored the decarbonization factors that will increasingly drive down the consumption of traditional gasoline and diesel fuels. As global leaders work ...
NEW YORK—Economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal expect supply chain bottlenecks and elevated inflation to persist well into next year and continue to threaten the growth of the U.S. economy. Concerns about COVID-19 as a risk to growth, however, have waned. In a survey of ...
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