At Your Convenience

Jun 11 2024 16 mins
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“At Your Convenience” is the official podcast of CSP Daily News and CSP magazine. It explores the hottest trends and news in convenience retailing. Once a week, listeners will hear CSP’s editors discuss topics ranging from mergers and acquisitions and foodservice trends to store design and tobacco regulations with convenience-store retailers and other experts from around the industry. “At Your Convenience” also releases special issues, like content from our C-Store Women’s event and Convenience Retailing University conference.

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Chris Smith, President of McLane’s Retail Business, on Why Stretch Opportunities Are Important

Jun 11 2024 12 mins  
In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” Senior Editor Hannah Hammond talks to Chris Smith, president of McLane’s retail business. Smith shares how he got to the role he’s in today by being placed in a stretch opportunity—one he was put in before he was ready to help him grow in new areas. They also talk about how their Convenience-Store Women’s (CSW) event power team

Building a Brand With Disco Bathrooms at Convenience Stores

Jun 04 2024 20 mins  
In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Diane Adam talks with Damon Bail, vice president of Hop Shops and the retail division with Valor Oil, about the retailer’s marketing success in the least likely places—convenience-store bathrooms. Hop Shops stores in Kentucky have achieved unprecedented success thanks to the now viral disco bathrooms in six of its stores.

Powering Progress: Women Leading the Charge in Fuel Technology at Dover Fueling Solutions

Jun 03 2024 22 mins  
Join Dover Fueling Solutions Amy Cearley and Kendra Keller as they discuss how women are innovating in the industry, what trends are hot right now and where the c-store and fuel industries are heading.

Jacksons Food Stores, Lula Convenience Discuss Shift to Digital Commerce

May 28 2024 20 mins  
In this “At Your Convenience” podcast, in partnership with C-StoreTEC, guest host Art Sebastian dives into the dynamic world of digital commerce and online ordering in the convenience-store industry. Sebastian, NexChapter CEO, is joined by Kristin Sword from Jacksons Food Stores, Meridian, Idaho, and Adit Gupta from Lula Convenience, Philadelphia, to discuss the accelerated shi

Ryan Blevins of Weigel’s Discusses Pros to Long-Term Planning, Rotating of LTOs

May 21 2024 17 mins  
In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Chuck Ulie talks to Ryan Blevins, the director of food and beverage innovation at Powell, Tennessee-based Weigel's convenience stores. Blevins also touches on getting customers to turn a gas trip into a foodservice-shopping trip, Weigel’s eight new sauces and more. Weigel’s is a family-owned and -operated c-store chai

Upside Reports Decrease in C-Store Revenue Due to Inflation

May 14 2024 11 mins  
In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” David Poulnot, vice president of fuel and c-store at Upside, shares findings from the technology company's C-Store Report released this month. He talks about how despite sales growth headlines, convenience-store revenue has decreased when inflation is considered, dropping 19% between January 2021 and January 2024. Shoppers are makin

Advantage Solutions Dives Into C-Store Consumer Trends

May 07 2024 12 mins  
In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Senior Editor Hannah Hammond talks to Patricia Coe, senior director of client leadership, for Advantage Solutions Convenience Division, and Doug Middlebrooks, senior vice president of channel sales, for Advantage Solutions. The three talked about how convenience-store sales reached a new high in 2023, the time it takes for c-store c

Decarbonizing the Grid With Alternative Fuels

Apr 30 2024 18 mins  
In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” Scott Negley, senior director of product management at Dover Fueling Solutions, and Doug Haugh, chief commercial officer at Vertex Energy, talk about a broad-view perspective on the realities of converting the nation to use electric vehicles (EVs). The pair, who spoke in March at the Dover Fueling Solutions conference in Austin, advocat

How Yesway Is Leveraging Its Newly Re-Launched Loyalty Program to Drive Customer Acquisition, Engagement

Apr 23 2024 19 mins  
In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” NexChapter CEO Art Sebastian talks with Mike Caldwell, manager of loyalty at Yesway, and Jake Kiser, general manager of Stuzo PAR.

Farley Kaiser of McLane Fresh Talks Limited-Time Offers, Breakfast and More

Apr 16 2024 15 mins  
In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Chuck Ulie talks to Farley Kaiser, senior director of culinary of innovation at McLane Fresh. Kaiser (pictured) discusses the power of limited-time offers, breakfast still holding the title of king, and how lunch remains a strong focus of development—and opportunity. McLane is one of the largest distributors in America and