ROCKLAND, Mass. — Tedeschi Food Shops Inc. has introduced a new line of proprietary Tedeschi Select Sparkling Waters. The 20-ounce line of calorie-free, caffeine-free and sodium-free waters are available in four unique flavors: Raspberry Blackberry, Kiwi Strawberry, Key Lime, and Wild Cherry. Tedeschi Select Sparkling Water is available as single serve bottles or in four packs.Read More

ROCKLAND, Mass. — Tedeschi Food Shops Inc. is introducing a sausage sub to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Boston’s Fenway Park.This hearty sub is covered with freshly roasted green and red peppers as well as onions.Read More

WAYCROSS, Ga. — In many Georgia towns, the Flash Foods convenience store sign is the tallest structure around. While that may not be the case for its new travel center in Waycross, the endeavor certainly has been a tall order–and a huge success–for the chain.Read More

OKLAHOMA CITY — Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores has announced that it will donate $25,000 to the American Red Cross, Louisville, Ky., Regional Chapter, to help communities in the southern Indiana and Kentucky areas struck by tornadoes on March 2. Read More

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Convenience store chain and ice-cream purveyor Stewart’s Shops is expanding its private-label candy bar line, the retailer has announced on its website and through social media. Premium Dark Chocolate Mint joins Premium Dark Chocolate With Raspberry and Chocolate with Caramel bars.It replaces the Chocolate with Peanut Butter flavor, according to a comment on the Stewarts Shops Facebook page.Read more

WAWA, PA — Even as it prepares to enter the state of Florida, Wawa Inc. will see “exciting developments” in its core markets, CEO Howard Stoeckel said in his latest “Bird’s Eye View” blog. The retailer is making “a commitment to reinvest in [its] almost 600 Mid-Atlantic stores, and through the creation of a ‘pipeline’ of new stores,” he said.He revealed plans to open 15 to 20 stores in the company’s Mid-Atlantic market every year for the next several years. Some of these stores will be relocated older stores “where we can improve the experience and offer”; others will be new stores in areas the company believes it is currently underserving.  Read more

WAWA, Pa. — Pennsylvania-based convenience retailer Wawa Inc. is making moves toward Washington, D.C., according to a report by the Washington Business Journal.”We have several sites in the works,” Peter Gilligan, Wawa Inc.’s vice president and chief real estate officer, told the newspaper while representing the company at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ Mid-Atlantic Conference, held this week at National Harbor.Read more

Pilot Flying J is acquiring Western Petroleum LLC.Western Petroleum is a market leader in selling and transporting approximately 200 million gallons of fuel and lubricants to the oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing industries. Western Petroleum’s operations are largely targeted toward the Rocky Mountain states, the southern states and the northern plains.  The company has enjoyed rapid growth in servicing the petroleum and natural gas drilling related channel in line with explosion of activity in that industry.Read more

Pilot Flying J has announced that country music star Trace Adkins will serve as a company spokesperson for the spring launch of its loyalty program, representing the largest operator of travel centers and travel plazas in North America to its customers everywhere. Read More

ROCKLAND, Mass. — Tedeschi Food Shops Inc. today announced the acquisition of six Munce’s Konvenience stores in central New Hampshire. One newly renovated store, in Warren, N.H., is now owned and operated by Tedeschi.Gorham, N.H.-based Munce’s Superior Petroleum Products Inc. has a total of 11 retail outlets.
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