With an 11% increase in year-to-year sales, foodservice far surpassed all other in-store categories in sales growth last year, according to Convenience Store News 2008 Foodservice Study. Overall, c-stores registered a comparatively lackluster sales gain of 3.5% on their in-store merchandise categories in 2007.
According to the publication, for the first time, foodservice eclipsed cigarettes in gross margin dollars
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