The rise of plant-based eating in Canada is an opportunity to grow the snack and beverage category.

A shift in consumption reflects evolving consumer behaviours, priorities.

A fair recovery for essential businesses should emphasize the need to level the playing field for merchants, like c-stores, that have stood by Canadians throughout the pandemic.

The next step in our industry’s work to serve our customers is currently in the hands of governments: allowing beverage alcohol in convenience stores.

Balanced Calorie Initiative is helping drive a boon of healthier choices in the beverage aisle.

C-stores accounted for 84% of all Plinko sales for a total of $58 million in sales.

Convenience stores and distributors of all sizes must be included to ensure costs are not downloaded.

Rather than ‘if’, the question for c-store operators in the future will be ‘what’ and ‘when’ to add. Be prepared to move quickly to adopt vending technology when the market is established.

Foodservice success means adding alternative proteins on the menu.