“We need something that is open 24 hours a day in Charleston. Coming from Paris on Highway 22 there is no gas or food until you get to Barling overnight. Approximately 40 miles.”
“Everyone was really nice and polite they have different variety of selections of chips like Doritos lay Sun chips and I got sunflower seeds slim jims drinks like the pepper Pepsi mountain dew Gatorade water and there are different selection of candy bars like Hershey's kit Kat Eminem's and other selections you may want to get for the road and they may have different variety things you can get just bury some what you're wanting and want to get and you can just stop in there real quickly probably get a few things and they also have milk there if you needed milk and also they make sure everything's restocked and cleaned up and disinfected and sanitized that have variety of selections to choose from and if you can't find something I'm sure if your cashier they would probably help you just depends on what you're wanting to get and what you're getting who or what you're getting and who you're getting for that person just depends on what you're getting”
The Iowa retailer, the third-largest convenience store operator in the country, built its new three-year plan around three priorities: store growth, food and beverage expansion, and kitchen technology upgrades. The company plans to add 120 stores during the current fiscal year. Its previous plan, launched in 2023, delivered more than 500 new stores and earned the company a spot in the S&P 500.
Love's Travel Stops is starting 2025 with ambitious growth plans, adding 20 new stores and updating 50 current locations across the country. The truck stop company will upgrade its stores through its Strategic Remodel Initiative, which started in 2022. This includes the modernization of its recently acquired turnpike location in Stroud, Oklahoma. By 2035, over half of Love's 655 stores will be either new or updated.
Food service giant Sodexo plans to open nearly 100 "Food Hive" locations on campuses nationwide by 2026. The company has already started the process, aiming to launch about 30 new college convenience stores during the current 2024-25 academic year.
7-Eleven is going big on food and "frictionless shopping." The convenience store giant plans to open 500 new "food-forward" locations across the U.S. from 2025 to 2027. The expansion builds on 7-Eleven's "Evolution" store concept, first launched in Dallas in 2019. These larger-format stores feature in-store restaurants, premium products like craft beer and cigars, and an emphasis on fresh, grab-and-go meals.
Amazon has quietly opened a new type of grocery store in downtown Chicago. Called Amazon Grocery, the 3,800-square-foot store is a testing ground for Amazon's latest experiment in brick-and-mortar retail. The first Amazon Grocery location shares a building with a Whole Foods Market, which Amazon purchased in 2017.