4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (491+ words) Casey’s General Stores’ inside same-store sales increased 3.2% compared with the prior year, and 7.7% on a two-year stack basis, with a gross profit margin of 42.2%, Darren Rebelez, chairman, president and CEO, said during the company’s first-quarter 2027 earnings call Wednesday. Total inside gross…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (211+ words) Convenience-store and tobacco industry speakers, retailers and suppliers will be in attendance at the CSP Tobacco Plus Forum by Informa, taking place Sept. 16 to 18 at the Oak Brook Hills Resort and Conference Center in Oak Brook, Illinois. The forum will…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (479+ words) Nouria convenience stores received the second-best score, 96.5%, in the coffee section of the revealed audit of CSP and Intouch Insight’s 2026 Mystery Shop evaluation. Coffee is one of Nouria’s signature categories, said COO Joe Hamza. “We offer traditional blends, dark roast,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (196+ words) CSP Daily News Rutter’s reigns as 2026 Mystery Shop winner Care is at the center of business for each of this year’s three Mystery Shop finalists, who also happen to be 2025’s finalists—including 2026 champ Rutter’s. Caring comes in several forms,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (284+ words) Philip Morris International Inc. on Monday announced that it has entered, through its non-U.S. affiliates, into a contract manufacturing arrangement for cigarettes with Philip Morris USA, an operating company of Altria. “The collaboration is expected to leverage the respective combustible…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (278+ words) Valor Oil-operated Hop Shops, the convenience-store chain with several disco bathrooms, is launching Disco Dough Pizza Co. on Sept. 1. The Owensboro, Kentucky-based company said, “With playful branding, craveable pizza and a name that feels right at home alongside a disco…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1604+ words) There’s tough competition in snacks. Consumers are turning outside of convenience stores to buy their favorite treats. They’re also feeling the pinch of inflation, making value important in the center store—whether that value comes from convenience, flavor innovation, added…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (366+ words) The national average retail price of regular grad gasoline fell 3 cents per gallon in the past two weeks, and it now sits at $4.146. But not for long. In fact, with wholesale gasoline price leaping in response to oil price moves,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (325+ words) Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has opened its newest travel stop in Premont, Texas, and reopened remodeled locations in Waco, Georgia; Lordsburg, New Mexico; Greenville, Illinois; Conneaut, Ohio; Walters, Oklahoma; and Baxter, Tennessee. The renovations are part of its Road…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (315+ words) Murphy USA customers will have the chance to buy a White Castle burger from some of its larger-format convenience stores. The burgers won’t be served by a human, though—they’ll come from a robotic restaurant in a box. The initiative…...