SECAUCUS, N.J.—Aside from lifting pay, employers who pay attention to their employees’ health and offer enhanced benefits might have an edge when it comes to retaining staff, a new Quest Diagnostics survey found. Among employees thinking about changing jobs, better benefits in ge...

By Mike Watkins LONDON—With most countries in Europe lifting pandemic restrictions by the end of Q1 2022, shoppers started to return to stores, and as shoppers became less dependent on large store formats for the weekly shop, the impact was more visits to convenience stores. Acro...

FORT WORTH, Texas—Yesway has opened two new Allsup’s-branded stores in Mineral Wells, Texas, and Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first of two new prototype formats the fast-growing convenience retailer has developed—a large-format convenience store and a hybrid truck stop. Open 24 ho...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—NACS on May 13 filed a petition in federal court in Washington, D.C., to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s grant of a waiver that would allow California to impose a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate and related limits on greenhouse gas emissions. T...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—NACS last week joined with 92 other groups in signing a Partnership to Protect Workplace Opportunity (PPWO) letter urging U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh to abandon or at least postpone the Labor Department’s proposed rulemaking altering the overtime regulatio...

CHICAGO—Nearly two-thirds of U.S. households subscribe to a retail membership, with over 62% of households holding at least one retail membership, according to Numerator’s Retail Membership Tracker, which compares Amazon Prime, Walmart+ and Target’s Shipt Everyday subscription pr...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Walmart is protecting its labor pool of store managers through a program that recruits and trains college graduates to become Walmart store managers, reports the Wall Street Journal. The College2Career program has grads starting at $65,000 a year and leads them on...

By Mark Wohltmann What a busy month. After a hiatus of two years due to COVID-19, it is very clear that everyone is eager to get out again and that we can expect some superlatives at events this year. We started the month of April with our NACS Convenience Leaders Exchange German...

STILLWATER, Okla.—OnCue, located in Oklahoma and Texas, has partnered with Skydance Brewing to introduce a limited-edition craft beer called OK Heritage Ale as part of OnCue’s local brewery collaboration series. "As Oklahoma's Native American craft brewery, we are very excited to...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Inflation tops Americans’ list of the biggest problems facing the country, with 7 in 10 Americans saying inflation is a very big problem for the country, followed by the affordability of health care (55%) and violent crime (54%), according to Pew Research. The con...