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July 2025

July 2025

We're recapping all the learnings from the 2025 NACS Food Safety Forum and sharing what you need to know to protect public health, your people and your brand. Also, see how your stores can attract today's nicotine customers and build your AI toolbox. 

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Features

4 Ways to Adapt to Attract Today’s Nicotine Shopper

Change on the backbar is accelerating, with value and variety top of mind.

How to Build Your AI Toolbox

Practical ideas to tighten the nuts and bolts of your AI strategy.

Know Your Hybrid, Remote, and Commuter Customers

Nearly a quarter of Americans work remotely, creating opportunities for convenience retailers to capture market share.

Prioritizing Food Safety

Today’s hurdles are tomorrow’s opportunities for addressing traceability, implementing new technology and maintaining consumer trust.

Smoking Out the Illegal Vape Industry

How can convenience compete with vape shops when only one side plays by the rules?

The Backbar of the Future Offers More Than Nicotine

Research shows that customers are focused on price and flavor as well as their nicotine.

Departments

Gas Station Gourmet

A Focus on Food at Junction Station

The Kentucky store found foodservice success through tough love and hard work.

Category Close-Up

Commissary: A Shrinking Slice of a Growing Pie

Although commissary has lost some share of foodservice, suppliers see ample opportunity.

Ideas 2 Go

Maine C-Store Offers ‘A Little Bit of Everything’

The Waterboro Market & Café stands out by stocking first-to-market products.

Faces of the Industry

Teaching and Training at TXB

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April 2026

Point-of-sale systems, agentic AI, global tech trends...this month's issue covers the ideas and innovations transpiring in the technology space. As you read this issue, keep one question in mind: What problem are you trying to solve for? Look no further than tech for a solution. 

April 2025

Welcome to our annual technology-focused issue. "Putting the AI in Retail" highlights the pervasive nature of AI, comparing it to electricity in its ubiquity and potential to infiltrate everyday life and operations. Find out how various c-store operators of all size are approaching AI, as well as the timing of AI investments. No doubt AI's integration into convenience stores will be a topic of discussion for years to come—and in NACS Magazine. 
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