In 1946, the Tote'm convenience-store chain extended its hours from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The pleasure, the convenience-- all a person had to do was lean back and be entertained.
So it recruited new customers like the 7-Eleven convenience-store chain and United Parcel Service.
"Ours is not an alliance of convenience -- it's a partnership of purpose, " Brown said.
Cookies can be a convenience--they can automate your login to a site, for example.
He sells not just funds to bank trust departments but convenience--like back-office software that clears mutual fund trades.
Casey's has spent 38 years selling convenience-store goods mainly in small midwestern towns with populations of 5, 000 or fewer.
They may have a link of convenience - they may find it tactically convenient to cooperate from time to time.
There is likely to be pressure, not just from politicians but also from convenience-minded citizens, to make the card do more.
"We will not sell our product in the convenience-store channel, " he says.
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"It will have an impact on Wal-Mart's sales but not a dramatic impact, since Tesco's U.S. stores will be more convenience-based, " he said.
Shimizu wondered if he might combine the best points of a capsule hotel - price and convenience - with the gentle touches of a traditional ryokan.
If this has helped to promote broader discussion of the deeper question of values--freedom and community vs. pure convenience--that is a good thing.
Yucho has recently lost some of its payments business to Japan's convenience-store chains, which together have an even more comprehensive branch network than the post office.
Nothing says the holidays in America to him like a convenience- store sign wishing customers "Happy X-Mas" while offering them great deals on Bud Lite and antifreeze.
Fast-food and convenience-store franchises, an obvious first step on the ladder, are often awarded to blacks, but franchises still account for a tiny share of retail sales.
New products from Smucker focus on the convenience-oriented "dashboard diners, " like a grilled cheese sandwich or a packaged peanut-butter-and-jelly on crustless bread to be munched on the run.
The convenience-store trade is getting a makeover in many locales.
By the time Donahoe's succession was announced in January of this year, he was returning to those "convenience-oriented buyers" and talking up Ebay as a channel for fixed-price sales.
So far, no large Indian supermarket chain has managed to replicate the convenience-store format successfully, because it's tough to offer goods on credit, personalize the service and stay profitable.
The convenience-store operator says it deployed the application in May 2011 to help field consultants, who work with local franchise owners, share their knowledge and learn best practices from one another.
The rest of its sales were divided between breakfast cereal across Europe and frozen snacks in Belgium and the Netherlands, along with a smattering of convenience-food joint ventures in Central Europe.
The story goes that in 2002 the owners of a now-defunct convenience-souvenir store at the highway interchange wanted to attract customers, so they built the roadside attraction in parody of the classic Cadillac Ranch.
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The 49 stores being purchased for an undisclosed payment are of strategic value to Morrisons which has lagged other supermarkets in creating a convenience-store format, as well as a home delivery service.
Worryingly, as well as selling subsidiaries that have nothing to do with retailing, Seiyu has also got rid of part of Muji's owner, Ryohin Keikaku, and Family Mart, a convenience-store operator, both good businesses.
Jere Thompson Jr. had the experience of watching his father and uncle drive the family's 7-Eleven empire -- a worldwide convenience-store chain that his grandfather started with a single Dallas icehouse in 1927 -- into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990.
Each year about 320 million handmade cigars--not the manufactured kind sold in convenience stores--are sold in the United States, according to the Retail Tobacco Dealers Association (RTDA).
Wi-Fi wireless systems deliver similar performance and greater convenience at--for now--lower prices.
With the accent on cross-cultural convenience and high-tech efficiency, Eurostar has processed away the potential for such memorable exchanges.
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