Category: Business

Dive Brief: Murphy USA plans to build at least 500 new c-stores over the next decade as the company continues to prioritize “organic growth,” Andrew Clyde, president and CEO, said during the company’s earnings call Thursday. The El Dorado, Arkansas-based retailer opened 36 new stores and completed 32 raze-and-rebuilds last year, and expects up to […]

Dive Brief: Shoppers have shown increasingly high expectations for c-stores in categories like affordability and customer experience over the last three years, according to the 2022 NACS Convenience Voices survey. While about two thirds of respondents said location is their biggest factor in picking a convenience store to shop at — about the same as […]

Dive Brief: Amazon has halted the rollout of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores as the company figures out how to better differentiate them and improve their economics, CEO Andy Jassy said during the e-commerce company’s fourth quarter earnings call Thursday. Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said during the call that Amazon recorded a $720 million […]

Companies across all industries have embarked on sustainability initiatives to help reduce their carbon footprint, resource utilization, and overall environmental impact. While many CIOs recognize the urgency of climate change and the need to protect and preserve our planet, they’re also rightfully concerned about the cost of implementing sustainability programs and the impact they might […]

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series, we interviewed Martha Razo, author of the book, Business Diva: Stories of Women Leading in Business. Ms. Razo, CEO of Guero Pallets, Inc. and owner of Solix Business Services, both Chicago businesses, created this book to share the stories of women taking their futures and lives into […]

Dive Brief: Sheetz is officially rescinding its “smile policy” — which disqualified people with poor dental hygiene from working at its stores — “effective immediately,” Stephanie Doliveira, executive vice president of people and culture at Sheetz, said in an emailed statement.  Doliveira noted that “through employee feedback,” Sheetz learned and agreed that the policy didn’t […]

Body armor can protect against cold or firearms, as well as from shrapnel wounds. Life often depends on this personal protective equipment. Most often, armored businessmen, bodyguards, as well as people who are engaged in the transportation of expensive goods and do not want to attract too much attention to themselves purchase a body armor […]

Dive Brief: Retail artificial intelligence company Standard AI has agreed to acquire self-checkout vendor Skip Checkout for an undisclosed amount, according to an emailed announcement. The deal makes San Francisco-based Standard AI the only company to combine self-checkout and AI-powered autonomous checkout into one integrated package for retailers, according to the announcement. With hiring and […]

Dive Brief: Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores has partnered with Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) to provide certain repair services for Freightliner vehicles, according to a Tuesday press release. The partnership, which is scheduled to kick off this spring, will cover a variety of services for Freightliner trucks, including light warranty repairs, roadside emergency […]

What is customer service? At its most basic level, customer service is about solving a customer’s problem when they can’t solve it themselves. That may be a perfectly reasonable way to think of customer service – but does it blow your socks off? Would this description make you so loyal to a brand that you […]