Restaurants Vs. Retail: The Competition Heats Up
CHICAGO (June 20, 2012 - PRNewswire)—Restaurants and retailers have a long history of competing over consumers' share of stomach. That competition becomes...
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7-Eleven CEO talks change, not encroachment
The CEO of 7-Eleven could have boasted about the inroads his chain has made into a market that was once owned by attendees of the Restaurant Leadership Conference. Joe DePinto certainly had the sales numbers to support a little braggadocio: $2.7 billion from fresh food, $5 billion from beverages, 1 million cups of coffee, 100 million fountain drinks.