CSP Daily News

Monday, March 25, 2002 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 57  

CONFECTIONARY
How Do You Eat a Chocolate Bunny?
The ears have it
NEW STORES
Clark Continues Hen Cobranding
Opens latest facility in Mundelein, Ill.
PEOPLE
CDI Branches Out
Consultant offering services to retailers beyond c-stores, stations, food
BIZ PUB REVIEWS
Fast Company
Recipe for Reinvention
Forbes
Bloody Bad Idea

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Special Delivery
New service helps store stand out

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Customers of the Old Fort Travel Plaza can get merchandise, including cigarettes, delivered with fast-food orders, says the News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Since mid-February, the truckstop and convenience store--which claims to be the second-oldest such facility in the nation--has been delivering food, along with anything else carried in the store, in an expanding area.

The store offers Chester Fried chicken, as well as proprietary pizza and hot sandwiches. The pizza is delivered in Old Fort Travel Plaza pizza boxes printed up with a picture of a ‘57 Chevy on them to promote "dashboard dining."

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Save Our Station
Local residents rally behind BP owner

ANSLEY PARK, Ga. -- A grassroots campaign is underway to save a 50-year-old, full-service BP service station in Ansley Park, Ga., according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Neighborhood residents and other regular customers are resisting plans by a local developer, John Dewberry, to buy the property from BP for an office development.

About 800 people have signed a petition to save the station, and a letter-writing campaign to BP headquarters is underway. And the campaign to save the station has been posted on the Ansley Park Civic Association website, says the report. "The entire neighborhood is totally behind this station," Lynn Werner, an Ansley resident, told the newspaper. "I never buy gas anywhere else unless I'm out of town. It's part of the community."

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