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- 24 Mar
Earlier this month, CSPnet.com reported that CST Brands has identified 100 stores that are candidates for sale. You may find the article here. This is part of an ongoing effort at CST Brands to “assess its asset base and close […]
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- 24 Mar
The first meeting of the PriceAdvantage Customer Advisory Board was held at the corporate headquarters of CST Brands in San Antonio, Texas, and the meeting was a smashing success. The members of the PriceAdvantage Customer Advisory Board are Tony Castro, […]
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- 14 Jan
The PriceAdvantage team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 2013.3. This version is a result of numerous feature requests from our customers. Here are a few highlights of this new release. Display competitor survey prices based on […]
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- 20 Dec
Retail fuel margins rebound this week
- Dec 20, 2013
- John Keller
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OPIS reported that the average retail fuel margin across the US improved $0.03 per gallon this week. The national US average retail fuel margin now stands at $0.221 per gallon, the highest margin since November 15. The year to date […]
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- 19 Nov
Rafe VanDenBerg is the editor-in-chief at MindBrew and contributor to PricingBrew, the online community for pricing professionals. He just wrote an article titled “Are pricing people too isolated to innovate?”. While this article was addressed to B2B pricing professionals, the […]
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- 08 Nov
In October 2013, PetrolPlaza recorded an interview with me to discuss the unveiling of the new PriceAdvantage “Margin Percentage” report. The full interview can be found here. This new report allows retail fuel managers to view retail fuel margins as […]
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- 05 Nov
In the second quarterly financial report since spinning off from Valero, CST Brands reported a successful quarter of effectively implementing fuel pricing strategies that balanced fuel margins and fuel volumes. These strategies varied according to the market profile of the […]
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- 30 Sep
Retail Fuel Management issues span the globe
- Sep 30, 2013
- John Keller
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A team representing PriceAdvantage just spent the week at the Insight NACS Future of Convenience industry show in London. It was an exciting time for us because for the first time we were able to show off the international capabilities […]
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- 26 Aug
Everybody’s out there looking for pennies: Fuel customers are using mobile apps and will make challenging left turns for the promise of saving just a few pennies on a fill-up. Amid this, fuel retailers look for ways to wring a […]
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- 27 Jun
More and more we’re seeing PriceAdvantage customers adapt GasBuddy OpenStore as their digital marketing solution. First it was Rutter’s, then it was Parker’s, followed by Family Express. CST Brands, formerly Valero, is the fourth PriceAdvantage customer to use both PriceAdvantage […]
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