CSP Magazine | September 2012

Follow the Leader

With a new format and new incoming CEO, Wawa sets a course for Florida.

- Also in this Issue -

For the second year in a row, CSP brings you our exclusive Midyear Category Data Report. NOCO shows off its new traveler-friendly prototype. In Competitive Watch, we examine Seattle's Best's new drive-thru format. Plus a primer on water use in c-stores, OTP and private-label dairy.

In this Issue:

Cover Story

As Howard Stoeckel retires from Wawa, CSP takes a look at his legacy, vision and the search for a successor.

Chain seeks clearer competitive waters with a new format in Florida.

Guest Columns

Features

Top categories hold steady as retailers seek to innovate.

New NOCO store soars with traveler perks, Charlie the Butcher.

Seattle’s Best Coffee tries to brew up a niche in the shadow of Starbucks.

How to decode the foodservice-at-retail consumer.

Mobile platforms pushing POS trends, but legacy systems also evolving.

What water is doing to your beverages and equipment—and how best to treat it.

Retailers eagerly add frozen, prepackaged cocktail pouches despite challenges.

E15, higher grades of ethanol fight for a right to exist at the pump.

New tobacco-free product adds to retailers’ smokeless arsenal.

Dipping dairy sales open door for private-label options.

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