Convenience Stores Now Compete With Fast Food, Study Shows Shifting Customer Habits

The first convenience store in America opened its doors 99 years ago in Dallas, Texas. Since then, we have fallen pretty hard for the entire concept.

Gas? Check. Coffee? Check. Milk, eggs, lottery tickets, snacks, a gallon of windshield washer fluid and something vaguely resembling dinner? Perhaps a bag of softener salt and some firewood?

Yep, they’ve got that, too. And these days, some convenience stores have become destinations in their own right…

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