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- 29 Mar
Skyline Products Forms PriceAdvantage Division
- Mar 29, 2010
- John Keller
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Skyline Products announced that the PriceAdvantage fuel pricing software group has been spun off to form a separate division of the company. “When we began developing this software 6½ years ago, most convenience stores didn’t have an Internet connection and […]
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- 29 Mar
PriceAdvantage Featured in Gazette Telegraph
- Mar 29, 2010
- John Keller
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The PriceAdvantage division of Skyline Products was featured in the Gazette Telegraph, the local newspaper of Colorado Springs . The article titled “Company seeks to make changing fuel prices easier for retailers” appeared in the March 29, 2010 edition. Featured […]
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- 15 Mar
Every year around this season we see c-store fuel prices begin a gradual increase from spring to summer. This Forbes article explains the primary reason behind this fuel pricing strategy as being related to EPA federal regulations around emissions. Summer […]
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- 10 Mar
SPINX acquires 10 more c-stores
- Mar 10, 2010
- John Keller
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According to Convenience Store News, the SPINX convenience store chain has acquired ten more c-stores. All ten stores are located in South Carolina, and will be re-branded to the SPINX name. With this acquisition, SPINX now owns and operates 74 c-stores. […]
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- 09 Mar
Fuel Price Strategy Explained
- Mar 09, 2010
- John Keller
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There’s a great article explaining fuel pricing strategies to consumers on the website ENCToday.com. It’s common for consumers to have misconceptions about how their gas prices are set. Sometimes these misconceptions can include cartel-like price fixing arrangements between c-stores in […]
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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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