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Sustainability and waste reduction efforts are top of mind for many large organizations and suppliers, with many announcing exciting and forward thinking plans in recent month.

Two family-run convenience retail businesses have social media success commonalities that they learned through trial and error.

7Rewards members can enter for a chance to win a gaming console 7-Eleven Canada has unveiled a new 7Rewards For The Win PS5™ Contest, where customers over 13 years of age in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario have a chance to win a PlayStation5 console.

The Convenience Stores News Canada and OCTANE team is thrilled to launch the fourth annual Star Women in Convenience Awards.Nominations are now open and the deadline to nominate is March 31, 2021.

Customers at The Tare Shop in Halifax are creative with their containers: Some use classic jars but others reuse yogurt containers, pots and pans or even empty glass liquor bottles.“One of our regulars who lives across the street came in with a salad bowl,'' says Kate Pepler, the shop's owner.

Kraft Heinz, Nestlé, Häagen-Dazs, Hershey Canada among the early adopters Canada's first modern-day milkman service that delivers brand-name groceries and household goods to doorsteps in reusable packaging is launched in Toronto this week.

Asks that convenience workers be included with other essential retail workers in province's vaccination plansThe Convenience Industry Council of Canada is part of the new Ontario Vaccination Support Council (OVSC), founded by close to 100 businesses, organizations, and the Ontario Chamber Network."The group is made up of a diverse and important group of businesses and organizations and CICC is pleased to have a seat at this table and contribute to this important initiative," the CICC said in a recent email to members.The OVSC, whose members represent hundreds of thousands of employees from across the province, is "to provide support for Ontario’s historic COVID-19 vaccination effort with the ultimate goal of ending the pandemic."The Council will be co-chaired by James Scongack, EVP of corporate affairs & operational services at Bruce Power and Garrick Tiplady, the managing director of Facebook.“We are pleased to launch the Ontario Vaccination Support Council with our partners at Bruce Power and Facebook Canada,” said Rocco Rossi, president and CEO of the OCC.

3 trends poised to shape convenience in 2021 In a world where consumers’ constantly changing product preferences, sky-high expectations and buying behaviours rule, trends often push c-stores to pivot, innovate and aim higher.