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Volume 12 Issue 28   Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Pantry Sells 22 Sites
Continues store disposition program
By Steve Holtz

CARY, N.C. -- The Pantry convenience store chain continued its site disposition program in the last three months of 2011, closing 25 underperforming stores and selling 22 of them to new dealer customers.

"This resulted in $2.1 million in proceeds, and we expect $900,000 in improvement in EBITDA as a result," CFO Mark Bierley said on a first-quarter earnings call yesterday.

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CSP Exclusive: How Steve Jobs Reinvented Retailing, Pt. 1
Lessons from man who changed way we communicate, listen to music, obtain information
By Gerald Lewis

NEW YORK -- Steve Jobs' untimely death last year focused attention on his amazing career, putting him in a league with great inventors and thinkers who changed the world, such as Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. Unlike them, however, Jobs was not an inventor or a creator. Rather, he was an intuitive genius who shaped products and ideas created by others to make them better, simpler, more functional and more beautiful--and then developed new markets for them.

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