At Your Convenience

In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Diane Adam talks with Mike Maraldo, who leads the business unit of GetGo Cafe + Market [https://www.cspdailynews.com/company-news/couche-tard-divest-35-gas-stations-majors-management] as vice president of operations.  Laval, Quebec-based Circle K owner Alimentation Couche-Tard acquired [https://www.cspdailynews.com/mergers-acquisitions/alimentation-couche-tard-closes-its-157-billion-acquisition-getgo-cafe] GetGo Cafe + Market in June. On this podcast, Maraldo explains why Couche-Tard a great fit for GetGo, what makes GetGo’s food and loyalty program [https://www.cspdailynews.com/company-news/alimentation-couche-tard-plans-maintain-getgos-food-first-approach] so successful and more.

In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Chuck Ulie talks with Jennifer Loper of C3 Brand Marketing, Overland Park, Kansas, who spoke at CSP’s C-Store Foodservice Forum [https://www.cspdailynews.com/foodservice/foodservice-trips-down-dollar-sales-convenience-stores] June 18 in Schaumburg, Illinois. At the forum, she presented with Julia Foley, C3’s senior insights and strategy supervisor. On this podcast, Loper talks about what kid-friendly convenience-store foodservice offerings look like, how to get started, the importance of communication with customers, knowing safety standards and more.

In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Rachel Gignac talks with Brian Ferguson, chief marketing officer at EG America, Westborough, Massachusetts. Ferguson talks about EG's loyalty program, SmartRewards, the chain's investment in retail media and artificial intelligence and its foodservice offerings.

In the latest episode of CSP's "At Your Convenience" podcast, Vice President of Content Strategy Abbey Lewis sits down with Marc Walkin, Head of Marketing at Qsic. Walkin makes a compelling case for why convenience stores represent an ideal environment for strategic audio: "What makes c-stores so unique is first, they're highly impulse-driven relative to other channels," Walkin explains. "Any audience that is more impulse-driven is obviously more susceptible to ads that could change behavior."

Sandie Deas Ray, Nadine Lim and Elsa Storts are three consumer-packaged goods (CPG) leaders who are all at different stages of their careers. They’re also all part of the same power team, a group of industry members who attended CSP’s Convenience-Store Women’s (CSW) Event [https://www.cspdailynews.com/company-news/returning-attendees-share-importance-c-store-women-mission] and who meet throughout the year to solve challenges that women in the workplace face.  In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” [https://www.cspdailynews.com/csp-podcast] Lim, e-commerce manager at Temple, Texas-based McLane Co. Inc.; Deas Ray, vice president of foodservice sales and marketing at Frisco, Texas-based Ruiz Foods Inc.; and Storts, trade show and event manager for Austin, Texas-based BeatBox Beverages, get candid about mentorship.