Category: Business

A roundup of our most popular articles about open source technology from last year February 1, 2023 | %t min read According to Red Hat’s 2022 State of Enterprise Open Source report, 82 percent of IT leaders are choosing open source. Open source solutions are making their mark across many different industries including healthcare, retail, […]

Dive Brief: Convenience store chain Weigel’s Stores has signed on with retail service provider GSP to update its point-of-purchase (POP) marketing, according to an emailed press release. The new agreement will provide the chain’s 73 locations with store-specific marketing materials and management. GSP’s POP plans uses store-specific fulfillment software to send the exact promotional and […]

Convenience store retailer Maverik opened a new location in Magna, Utah, last week, marking the chain’s 400th store in its network, according to a recent announcement. The new location is just over 5,000 square feet and is open 24/7. It features certified truck scales, truck and RV lanes, an RV dump, a picnic area, assisted-checkout registers […]

With more wanting to become entrepreneurs, it’s only natural to be excited and want to get things up and running. After all, who doesn’t want to be their own boss of a revolutionary startup? As exciting as the idea is, it’s equally important to understand that getting a startup off the ground doesn’t happen overnight. […]

News has surfaced over the past couple of weeks that Blackburn, U.K.-based c-store giant EG Group may be looking to sell its assets in the U.S. in an effort to relieve billions in debt. EG Group, which operates domestically as EG America, came out of nowhere in 2018 when it acquired Kroger’s 762-site c-store network. […]

Dive Brief: Food retailer and distributor SpartanNash has named Ryan Speakes vice president of fuel center and convenience stores, effective immediately, according to a Monday announcement. Speakes, who previously spent over 15 years with Speedway and 7-Eleven, will oversee SpartanNash’s 37 fuel centers, most of which include a c-store and are co-located with one of […]

CIOs face plenty of challenges in today’s business climate. As organizations are pressured to do more with less, CIOs must find a way to be as productive as possible and deliver more value to their business stakeholders. They must also ensure that they have enough qualified personnel to meet their needs and that their teams […]

In their new book, The Four Factors of Trust, Deloitte LLP principals Ashley Reichheld and Amelia Dunlop adopt Harvard professor Sandra Sucher’s definition of trust as our willingness to be vulnerable to the actions of others because we believe they have good intentions and will behave well toward us. They go on to enumerate four factors underlying […]

Dive Brief: 7-Eleven is testing robotic delivery in West Hollywood, California, in partnership with Serve Robotics, according to food tech news site HNGRY on Wednesday.  7-Eleven has been involved with Serve since late 2021, when 7-Ventures, the investment branch of 7-Eleven dedicated to early stage investments, invested in a $13 million seed funding round.    Serve […]

Dive Brief: BW Gas and Convenience Holdings, doing business as Yesway, raised $190 million in equity in the second half of 2022 to fund growth plans, according to a Monday press release.  Global investment company HPS Investment Partners provided the majority of the money raised, which is earmarked for building new stores. The funding is […]