Retailer Tidbits

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Casey’s General Stores Inc. will launch Casey’s Access in 2023. The end-to-end retail media business will bring together convenience guest data alongside Casey’s pizza restaurant offering.

Circle K is teaming up with delivery startup Food Rocket to pilot the retailer’s quick delivery business model at two Charlotte, N.C., stores. Food Rocket will offer up to 7,000 SKUs through its app.

MAPCO opened the company’s first checkout-free convenience store. Shoppers at the Brentwood, Tenn., site can skip the line by checking out via the Grabango app. Smith Oil is enhancing its consumer engagement with a loyalty mobile app that features fuel pay and a digital customer rewards program. A pact with Liquid Barcodes will build on its current rewards program.

Trillium Energy Solutions, part of the Love’s Family of Companies, is bringing the My Love Rewards loyalty program to compressed natural gas (CNG) customers. More than 60 public Trillium stations and Love’s Travel Stops offer CNG.

Sunshine Gasoline Distributors Inc.

upgraded its mobile app with a fuel pay feature. Customers will also be prompted to buy a car wash subscription plan or single wash vouchers in the same transaction.

All orders will be delivered from two micro-fulfillment centers that occupy between 170 and 500 square feet within the Circle K stores.