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Discover convenience store industry trends and find out how c-stores are adapting to changing environments with technological change in 2021

Mars Wrigley is using their new Accelerating Impulse Moments (AIM) platform to address changes in technology, track buyer habits, and increase the number of impulse purchases.

C-stores and the foodservice industry have experienced significant impacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic but recovery projections are looking positive.

As the pandemic wreaked havoc globally, c-stores had to switch their emphasis from expansion to survival. C-stores were forced to use the help of better mobile strategies if they were to survive.

It’s time consumers start expecting new beverages in the freezers of their favorite C-Stores as convenience retailers showcase new offerings with a new C-Store beverage strategy.

"Today, healthier product offerings is not a nice to have, it’s a need to have,” Shelley Balanko, Ph.D., senior vice president of The Hartman Group, told Convenience Store News.

Over the year, the pizza industry has faced sudden changes like lockdowns, merchandise shortages, and supply chain disruptions, but never stopped running. It adapted whatever it needed to grow and continued to evolve.

Federal law does not restrict private businesses from asking for proof of vaccination. But the new would require businesses such as restaurants and retail stores to police vaccination records to allow customers to shop mask free.