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- 8/6/2001
Fast Food Getting Faster
McDonald's to expand its speed payment system using ExxonMobil's Speedpass technology. - 8/5/2001
Good Golly, It's Mollie's!
Combine Americans' longstanding love affair with their cars with their increasingly time-constrained lifestyles, and it's easy to understand the proliferation of drive-through businesses. Drive-through banks and fast-food restaurants have been with us for years; more recent developments have included drive-through dry cleaning, drugstores and, yes, convenience stores. - 8/5/2001
Sheetz Carrier Recognized for Safety
Petroleum distributor CLI Transport honored by the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association. - 8/5/2001
"The Shifting Competitive Landscape"
The most up-to-date ideas and strategies in convenience retailing and a beautiful historical setting combined to make this year's Convenience Store News annual Top 50 Forum an indisputable success. The event, held in Charleston, S.C., June 13 to 15 at the Charleston Place hotel, kicked off with a tour of area c-stores. Later, 150 attendees gathered for a Welcome Reception at the Riviera Complex, a restored 1939 Art Deco movie house. Throughout the event, retailers and suppliers attended sessions emceed by Harry McHugh of Wawa Inc. - 8/5/2001
Tax Check Cashing Program a Success
Wal-Mart has seen "an immediate and direct benefit to sales" in categories like consumer electronics. - 8/5/2001
Digging for Dollars
Ah, those heady days of 1999, when any college dropout armed with a bathrobe and a bad idea could make millions off of overeager daytraders. - 8/5/2001
Cumberland Farms Stockholders Invest in Uni-Marts
Haseotes family acquires approximately 10 percent of the Pennsylvania chain. - 8/5/2001
All In the Family
Building on the foundations laid by dairies, gas stations and fuel distributors, c-stores emerged last century, growing quickly from an innovation to an indispensable part of American life.