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Title: Back-office software for convenience stores and gas stations
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Fuel still pays the bills, but it pays less than most people think. NACS reports that fuel accounted for 65.0% of total convenience store sales dollars in 2025, yet only 38.8% of gross profit dollars. Fuel sales fell 5.4% to $476.3 billion as prices dropped, even though gallons sold rose 0.5%.
For fuel retailers, jobbers ...
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Convenience retail just posted its 23rd straight year of in-store sales growth. NACS reports that U.S. in-store sales reached $341.2 billion in 2025, up 1.7%. For operators running 10, 40 or 100 stores, the oppor...
If you own one store, or ten, you are not a niche. According to NACS, 95,672 of the 151,975 convenience stores in the U.S. belong to companies with 10 or fewer locations. That is about 63% of the industry. Independent operators are the industry.
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For IT and operations directors in the convenience and fuel retail sector, the core challenge is integration. You have to keep a complex, distributed environment of point-of-sale (POS) terminals, forecourt controllers, back-office systems, and head-office ERPs working together flawlessly, 24/7.
The scale of this infrastructure is massive. The NRF notes that retail ...
Operating an independent convenience store means wearing every hat. You are the marketer, the inventory specialist, the accountant, and often, the cashier. According to the Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing (NACS), there are 152,255 convenience stores in the United States, and the vast majority of these are run by independent, single-store, or small-chain opera...