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Article: Convenience stores set standard for retailers
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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A few years ago, you almost never heard anyone in the mainstream
retail industry worry about competition from convenience stores.
Now, for executives at supermarkets, drugstores and discounters,
the lowly convenience store ranks right up there with other rival
retail channels.
Largely, it's because convenience stores offer two things
traditional retailers have been rushing to add in recent years:
convenience and food. It helps, too, that many convenience stores are
cleaner, hipper, more focused and better managed than they used to
be.
"For a while, convenience stores took the best from other retail
channels," said Jeff Lenard, a spokesman for the National Association
of Convenience Stores. ...