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Convenience Store News has unveiled its 2026 Top Women in Convenience honorees. From operations and foodservice to marketing and technology, these women continue to drive innovation, growth, and community across convenience retail.
Convenience Store News Magazine

Convenience Store News Reveals the 2026 Top Women in Convenience This year’s class comprises a record 116 veteran and emerging female leaders in the c-store industry.

The convenience channel is fully entering its “food destination” era. From made-to-order meals and chicken programs to customizable platforms and elevated coffee, c-stores are investing heavily in foodservice.
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The State of Foodservice: From ‘convenience-only’ to ‘food-and-beverage destinations’ Convenience-store chains like Pilot, OXXO, InConvenience draw in customers via food innovation

Convenience retail meets “doom scroll” energy. Viral Japanese lifestyle chain Ebisu is opening its largest-ever location in Tampa Bay—packed with imported snacks, drinks, beauty products, blind boxes, claw machines, and collectible culture.
Creative Loafing Tampa

Viral Japanese convenience store Ebisu will open world’s largest location in Tampa Bay Ebisu Life Store Ebisu Life Store, a wildly popular Japanese lifestyle shop filled with viral snacks, blind boxes and obscure collectibles, will soon open

ICYMI: SSCS Blog Post: Lo! The cash register is born!

Register to POS (Part 1): The Counting Machine that Really Counted Register to POS (Part 1): The Counting Machine that Really Counted The cash register wasted no time becoming the center of commercial operations, but it had a long way to go. Retail Counting Is Different So last week, the SSCS Blog completed

C-stores are finding a powerful growth lane on college campuses. From grab-and-go food to tech-forward checkout and Gen Z-focused assortments, retailers are building campus connections by meeting students where they're at.
Convenience Store News Magazine

How C-stores Are Leveraging Campus Connections Partnerships with local universities drive traffic and create brand loyalty.

New SSCS Blog Post: Lo! The cash register is born! https://blog.sscsinc.com/2026/05/07/register-to-pos-part-1-the-counting-machine-that-really-counted/

“We’ve redefined what a convenience stop should feel like.” Chicago’s Duck Stop Travel Center is raising the bar—prioritizing pro drivers, ultra-clean restrooms, and a more intentional, experience-driven stop.
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‘We’ve redefined what a convenience stop should feel like’ Chicago-area Duck Stop Travel Center boasts strong commitment to professional drivers, cleanest restrooms on the road

Store visits are getting shorter. As trips drop under 10 minutes, brands are leaning into in-store media to capture attention fast. And with 82% of shoppers hitting c-stores for quick grabs, the opportunity is clear: speed = influence.
EMARKETER

As store visits get shorter, in-store commerce media targets convenience store shoppers As marketers increasingly bet on in-store commerce media and consumers shorten their shopping trips, GSTV argues that brevity is a reason advertisers should bet on convenience stores.

ICYMI: SSCS Blog Post: How Binary Systems came to be, and other stuff about counting.

Counting (Part 3): The Quiet Revolution The Story of Counting (Part 3): The Quiet Revolution Thanks to solid state technology, counting has become invisible, instantaneous, and universal, with unprecedented scope. Welcome to the last part of the SSCS Blog’s trilogy on counting, a topic that sounds basic,

Big bet on foodservice at Alimentation Couche-Tard:
The retailer just added another food-focused VP, promoting Hélène Drolet as it doubles down on fresh food growth and restructures its “Fresh Food, Fast” strategy.
C-Store Dive Couche-Tard

Couche-Tard adds another food VP Helene Drolet moves into the newly created vice president of food and retail for Canada as the retailer continues its foodservice focus.

Its May Day! Which means time for another SSCS Tip of the Month. Operators that have employees that need a refresher on basic barcode behavior, click on this link and enter you user credentials to access it. https://portal.sscsinc.com/products/tips-of-the-month/202605_barcodes/