Wawa Inc.

Using SAP Retail applications from the headquarters down to the store, the chain is instituting automatic replenishment for foodservice and sophisticated category forecasting.

Flash Foods, Wawa, Thorntons and Sheetz share secrets on how they compensate, develop and maintain high-performing employees in today's changing market.

Last October, Convenience Store News published a feature article on the impact of rising credit-card interchange fees on c-store retailers. At the time, both MasterCard and Visa pledged to provide greater transparency about their rate structures. This prompted Mallory Duncan, senior vice president and general counsel at the National Retail Federation (NRF), and chairman of the Merchants Payment Coalition (MPC), to call Visa and MasterCard's attempts "an extremely welcome step toward a competitive market." However, retailers were still far from satisfied. Five months later, they remain disgruntled.

Howard Stoeckel's big claim to fame at Hamilton High School West, outside of Trenton, N.J.? He graduated. "It wasn't a given," he said.

Retailers including c-stores, drug stores and banks pay upwards of $2 million for coveted corner lots.

Through the program, store-specific data will be utilized in marketing efforts.

Global Powers of Retailing report outlines the major retail players in the world.

Tech vendors continue to improve c-store solutions, and the big boy technology companies, such as Dell and Microsoft, are making headway in the single-store industry.