Some Gas With That Sandwich? Convenience Dominates Fuel Market
- 7-Eleven, Wawa, QuikTrip fill space where Exxon once prevailed
- Good food as important to millennials as cheap prices
Exxon Mobil arrangements with Circle K and 7-Eleven Inc.
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Major oil companies have been steadily squeezed out of the U.S. retail gasoline business, where refueling your stomach has become as important as topping off your gas tank.
Motorists who once scoured American roadways for Exxon’s tiger or Texaco’s star now search for Buc-ee’s beaver or Wawa’s Canada goose. And millennials value the quality of food in their gas stations just as much as the price at the pump.