Category: Convenience Business

BP collaborates with Western Union on money transfers

In a new partnership with BP in Australia, Western Union services will be enabled through the financial-services company’s mobile app in 302 BP stores nationwide (including 150 with digital kiosks), allowing customers...

Amex cutting merchant fees for small businesses

American Express is reducing the fees it charges small businesses in Australia that accept the Amex card. Fee reductions will vary by business, with most small merchants to be charged a rate...

Innovative technology forces scammers to repay stolen fuel

WA anti-fuel-theft technology company, Scancam, has recovered $4,500 in bad debts for one of its fuel-station clients. Scancam cofounder Eoin Byrne says the company was delighted to present a cheque for $4,500 to...

Moorabbin: Costco’s first Melbourne fuel site

The latest Costco Wholesale warehouse opened at Moorabbin, in south-east Melbourne, in November, giving the city’s motorists their first opportunity to buy from Costco’s Kirkland Signature fuel options. This is the eighth Costco warehouse...

Budget Petrol celebrates 30th anniversary

In an industry that has recently changed its customer-facing offers many times, Budget Petrol in Sydney has been a steady ship. David Burton. Petrol brands have disappeared over time. Think Ampol, Golden Fleece and even for...

Are convenience retailers the next shopper revolution?

With shopper habits evolving rapidly, the convenience format can take advantage by offering solutions that fit with changing lives.  Filling up at the service station and about to use my 4¢-a-litre discount voucher,...

Why 7-Eleven is Australia’s second largest private company

The ever-rising urban population across the world is fuelling growth in the number of high-price, low-volume convenience stores. The UN estimates that 36 million people a year leave the countryside to move to...

Big and bold, and truckies love it too

A major Coles Express anchors a motorway service centre on the M1 at Nudgee, Queensland. David Burton. Families, tradies and truckies are just some of the 40,000-plus road users that pass the Nudgee service...
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