ALEXANDRIA, Va.—ADNOC Distribution, the UAE’s largest fuel convenience retailer, announced it has opened a fully autonomous, cashier-less ADNOC Oasis store—the first fuel retailer in the Middle East to do so. The Oasis store offers a cashless and contactless payment system and an...
By Sara Counihan ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A strong foodservice program should be a focus for any convenience retailer looking to make it in today’s fast-paced world. This week’s episode of the Convenience Matter podcast talks to three experts who are not only making the case for having gr...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The U.S. plans to strengthen regulations on oil and natural-gas production to reduce methane emissions, President Biden announced at the Glasgow climate summit, where world leaders pledged to drastically reduce methane, reports the Wall Street Journal. Methane, a ...
WASHINGTON—Growth Energy had threatened to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s delay in releasing Renewable Fuel Standard volume proposals for 2021 and 2022, according to a news release. The EPA was supposed to issue the 2021 Renewable Volume Obligatio...
PLEASANTON, Calif.—ExtraMile Convenience Stores (EMCS) will open its 1,000th store with the grand opening of a location in Vernon, Ala. on Dec. 18—its first location in the Southeast. ExtraMile is a joint venture between Cheveron and Jacksons Food Stores. “When Jacksons and Chevr...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—U.S. dairy products are in high demand, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite labor shortages and lack of truck drivers and milk plant operators, reports Farm Progress. If vaccination progress continues to reduce cases of COVID-19, the world eco...
BLACKBURN, United Kingdom—EG Group announced today that it has agreed to purchase all 34 of Sprint Food Stores Inc.’s fuel and convenience store locations in Georgia and South Carolina, plus the Sprint Kitchen foodservice brand. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Sprint Food St...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—NACS has sent a letter to the House Agriculture Committee for the record on a hearing on supply chain issues. The hearing titled “The Immediate Challenges to our Nation’s Food Supply Chain” took place yesterday. NACS sees serious issues with the state of the suppl...
WELYN GARDEN CITY, United Kingdom—More than two-thirds (67%) of all purchases in PayPoint’s network of convenience stores, which have boomed in popularity as people shopped locally during the pandemic, were made with cash during fiscal year 2020-21, according to a new study by Pa...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—TravelCenters of America said it has formed a new business unit, eTA, to bring alternative energy and sustainable resources to the marketplace. eTA will primarily partner with private companies, customers and the public sector to encourage and oversee the transiti...
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