ALTOONA, Pa. -- Stan Sheetz, president and CEO of Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz Inc., sat down with San Francisco-based CBS Interactive's SmartPlanet.com for a Q&A session on convenience. SmartPlanet.com is an online forum for green business and technology ideas.

The interview covered topic such as the 368-store chain's latest use of technology, why Sheetz does not want managers counting money and what he does when he stops at one of his company's locations.

TULSA, Okla. -- For the eighth straight year, QuikTrip has captured a spot on Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," coming in at No. 41. Last year, it was ranked at No. 27.

The c-store and gasoline retailer made the list because "new employees at this Midwest chain of c-stores are taken under the wing of mentors, who work with them for two weeks," said the report. It added, "Full-time turnover is 12% (unheard of in the industry), and the company maintains an IT staff of 79 to keep things running."

MIDDLETON, Wis. -- Samuel J. Jacobsen, who was born to immigrant parents and raised on a produce farm and went on to found PDQ Food Stores, one of the most successful c-store chains in the Midwest, died of heart failure Monday at 84.

A charter member of NACS, Jacobsen served as the association's president in 1972.