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If you want to know where convenience retail is headed, just look at the buildings.

7-Eleven made news this summer announcing a reset across North America. The company reported it is closing 645 underperforming stores while opening new ones,...

What Target Canada got wrong, and why our rollouts don’t feel that way

Between 2013 and 2015, Target opened more than 130 stores across Canada and then walked away from the whole market.

Most of the post-mortems point at merchandising and supply...

When a convenience store project runs into trouble, construction usually takes the heat.

The schedule slipped. Costs climbed. Something didn’t get delivered the way it was supposed to. But more often than not, the jobsite isn’t where things...