Melissa Kress

1 week ago | csnews.com | Melissa Kress

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four new-to-industry convenience stores have joined the Allsup's portfolio in the Southwest. The convenience stores are in Belen, Las Cruces and Chaparral, N.M, and Ardmore, Okla. All four began ringing up customers during the first quarter of 2025. They are part of Yesway's initiative to expand its banners and mark the 81st new store or major rebuild the company has completed over the past three and a half years.

2 weeks ago | csnews.com | Melissa Kress

Also in Georgia, a new Parker's Kitchen opened its doors at the intersection of Ford Ave. and Highway 17 in Richmond, Ga. The third Parker's Kitchen in Richmond Hill features a new, hand-painted version of Richmond Hill's iconic Lettuce Label mural, which was recently repainted by the original artist, Chris Walker. Parker's Kitchen commissioned Walker to recreate the mural, which references Richmond Hill's agricultural past as well as Henry Ford's historic cultivation of iceberg lettuce.

3 weeks ago | csnews.com | Melissa Kress

Trump's tariffs moves came on the same day that NRF forecasted that retail sales during 2025 will grow between 2.7% and 3.7% year over year to between $5.42 trillion and $5.48 trillion. The 2025 sales forecast compares with 3.6% annual sales growth of $5.29 trillion in 2024.

3 weeks ago | csnews.com | Melissa Kress

In addition to King, dozens of other CTP employees received dismissal notices on April 1, including two entire offices responsible for drafting new tobacco regulations and setting policy, the news outlet added. "If you make it virtually impossible to create and draft policy, then you are eviscerating the role of the center," Mitch Zeller, the former CTP director, said in an interview. "From a public health perspective it makes absolutely no sense."Zeller led the center from 2013 to 2022.

3 weeks ago | csnews.com | Melissa Kress

Skip to main content 7-Eleven Inc. The Irving, Texas-based convenience store retailer is known for embracing change in its product offer and services, and now it is changing up its well-known logo. The retailer's familiar 7-Eleven logo, complete with a lowercase "n" set against a white background gives way to a sneak-ily familiar 7-Eleven logo but with a uppercase "N" set against a black background.