Congratulations to Chris Hartman of Rutter’s on being promoted to VP of fuels, advertising, and development. Chris is part of the 11th generation of Rutter’s ownership and son of Scott Hartman, Rutter’s president and CEO.
This news was first reported by CSNews.
PriceAdvantage customer Minuteman Food Mart made the front cover of the November/December issue of IGM magazine, the publication of SIGMA.
The article is a profile story of Campbell Oil Company and its chain of 60 stores across North and South Carolina.
Minuteman became a PriceAdvantage customer in September 2021 across the 44 stores they had at the time, and when they acquired 16 more stores in June 2022, they rapidly expanded their use of PriceAdvantage to include those stores as well.
Convenience Store News selects Sheetz as its 2022 Technology Leader of the Year for its forward-thinking take on retail technology. The announcement can be seen here.
Sheetz CEO Travis Sheetz said “Technology is a great enabler to all those businesses we are in and the customers that we serve,” he said. “We are very literal about not using technology for technology’s sake, but using it for what it can do to make our business better.”
On the operations side of the convenience channel, technology helps retailers with efficiencies and labor redistribution to focus employees on the more value-added parts of the business.
Additionally, technology helps with information. “The world is all about data,” Travis Sheetz said. “Not only who has the most data, but who uses it the most effectively. There are very few things today where technology can’t help you be better.”
Casey’s reported their financial results for their second quarter today.
“The fuel gross profit dollars remained strong as our fuel team executed at a high level again and struck the right balance between sales volume and gross profit margin”, said Darren Rebelez, President and CEO.
Casey’s began implementing PriceAdvantage towards the end of Q4, 2018 and was fully implemented in the first half of 2019.
According to CStoreDecisions, Sheetz is expanding into Michigan. It has been two decades since Sheetz has entered a new state, and they will open locations in the Detroit area starting in 2025.
“We are thrilled to continue our growth into Michigan and bring the ultimate one-stop-shop to people across the state,” said Travis Sheetz, president and CEO of Sheetz. “Sheetz is dedicated to being a great employer and neighbor and we cannot wait to put those values into action as we expand into our first new state in two decades.”
Sheetz owns and operates 670 store locations across Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and Maryland. Sheetz has been a PriceAdvantage and Skyline sign customer since 2009. Integrations between the Radiant Systems POS, the pump, and the Skyline Electronic Price Display allow headquarters staff to use PriceAdvantage to update fuel prices in the field remotely. Best of all, the prices can be updated not only from a desktop or laptop but also on mobile devices.
According to the CStore Decisions article here, long-time Skyline sign and PriceAdvantage customer Royal Farms is expanding into North Carolina. Royal Farms will begin their expansion in Grandy, and follow with stores opening in New Bern, Greenville, Lumberton, Kinston and Jacksonville.
Royal Farms owns and operates over 260 locations throughout the mid-Atlantic. Royal Farms has been a Skyline sign and PriceAdvantage customer since 2006.