SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Valero Energy Corp. has opened a new basketball-themed Diamond Shamrock Corner Store, located near the new SBC Center, home to the San Antonio Spurs. This one-of-a-kind Corner Store is the second retail outlet Valero has opened in this area within the past two months.

Since Diamond Shamrock is a sponsor and the “Official Convenience Store” of the San Antonio Spurs, a special Spurs theme was added to one area of the store. In the Spurs corner, customers can sit and eat at one of the tables or at a counter running along one of the store’s windows. Also in this area, a hand-painted mural covers three walls from the floor to the ceiling. In the painting, a life-sized Spurs Coyote is “going to the hoop”--an actual, three-dimensional goal attached to one of the walls. The flooring in this corner has also been made to look like a real basketball court, complete with a free-throw line and Spurs center-court logo.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Marsh Supermarkets Inc. has offered some details concerning its recently announced initiative to upgrade and reimage a substantial number of its 167 Village Pantry convenience stores.

Jodi Marsh, vice president of community relations for Marsh Supermarkets, Village Pantry’s parent company, told CSP Daily News that “the reimaging focused on 101 out of the 111 fuel locations.” Of those, 85 are branded Marathon, 21 are BP/Amoco branded and 5 are Phillips 66 branded, she said. Some of those locations received exterior sign package improvements, new graphics, new foodservice equipment, resets and point-of-purchase signage in store.