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- 09 Mar
On the cover of USA Today March 9, 2010 there’s an article proclaiming that fuel prices will rise to $3/gallon this spring. The article references sources as “oil and gas analysts”, including OPIS and the Energy Information Administration. The article […]
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- 10 Feb
New Market Report is Bullish on C-store Industry
- Feb 10, 2010
- John Keller
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The new RNCOS “U.S. Convenience Stores Market Outlook to 2013” report states that the U.S. Convenience Store industry is likely to grow steadily in the next four years. This healthy outlook is largely due to the steady increase of the […]
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- 04 Feb
The State College PA based Uni-Mart chain of c-stores bankruptcy was finalized with the selling off of its physical assets to 26 distinct parties as reported here in the local Central PA newspaper Centre Daily Times. The vast majority of Uni- […]
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- 03 Feb
Fuel Sign Error sells gas at $.27 a gallon
- Feb 03, 2010
- John Keller
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NACSOnline reported a gas station in Avondale Ohio accidentally had posted a price of $.27 a gallon on their sign, without their employees’ knowledge. The price continued for 2.5 hours, and customers drove as far as 175 miles to take […]
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- 01 Feb
NACS Online published an interesting article about a pricing study conducted at the University of Miami School of Business Administration, where they found a pricing strategy that resulted in a 200 percent increase in sales and a 55 percent increase […]
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- 31 Jan
PCATS Motor Fuels Working Group Mission
- Jan 31, 2010
- John Keller
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The c-store industry is lucky to have the PCATS (Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards) organization to facilitate the cooperation and collaboration between customers, service providers and vendors in the c-store ecosystem. One of the sub-groups in PCATS is the […]
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- 29 Jan
I love my Droid phone. I use it off and on all day and I’m always looking for new reasons to use applications on it. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see an important update to my Where application. […]
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- 22 Jan
Fuel Pricing Software Discussion in CSP Article
- Jan 22, 2010
- John Keller
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PriceAdvantage fuel pricing software is featured in a CSP Magazine article titled “From Guts to Gigabytes”, where fuel retailers discuss using fuel price management solutions to optimize, simplify, and accelerate speed-to-street fuel pricing. Murphy Oil and CEFCO are two featured […]
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- 21 Jan
Great interview with Stan Sheetz
- Jan 21, 2010
- John Keller
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I just read a great interview with Stan Sheetz on smartplanet.com in their Smart People section. Mr. Sheetz is President and CEO of Sheetz, a c-store chain with 368 locations in the Mid-Atlantic states, headquartered in Altoona, PA. It’s a […]
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- 16 Oct
Skyline Products has recently completed a pilot program, using patent pending PriceAdvantageTM software to help Sheetz reduce costs and markedly increase available customer selling time. Mark Wilson, Director of Store Support for Sheetz, was able to achieve these results with […]
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