Desk

Bylined snack, cooler, and foodservice files. The archive runs through the last quarter.

Eric Lazare

Regular $4.319 and diesel $6.285, week ended Sept. 14

DeskSeptember 21, 2026
Rona Schwartz

Save A Lot’s J. Higgs bacon-cheddar chips pulled for undeclared soy

DeskSeptember 21, 2026
Eric Lazare

PepsiCo says 18% of people connect it to brands beyond Pepsi

DeskSeptember 21, 2026
Eric Lazare

Regular $4.071 and diesel $5.599 still pay the facing

DeskSeptember 20, 2026
Rona Schwartz

Casey’s said whole pizzas led a 5.5% inside same-store quarter

DeskSeptember 19, 2026
Rona Schwartz

The four-foot set is the test. A booth photo is not

DeskSeptember 18, 2026
Rona Schwartz

A grocery share leader can still lose the four-foot set

DeskSeptember 17, 2026
Eric Lazare

Energy, water, and fountain are not one war

DeskSeptember 16, 2026
Eric Lazare

Store brand in a c-store is a control tool, not a CPG company

DeskSeptember 15, 2026
Rona Schwartz

The DSD single can sell through before the bulletin arrives

DeskSeptember 14, 2026
Eric Lazare

Energy is still a door slot, not a lifestyle campaign

DeskSeptember 13, 2026
Rona Schwartz

Impulse and destination are different purchase orders

DeskSeptember 12, 2026
Eric Lazare

Food-at-home is the comparison set for the bag next to the pump

DeskSeptember 11, 2026
Eric Lazare

Couche-Tard grew energy and still cut price to protect the stop

DeskSeptember 10, 2026
Rona Schwartz

Couche-Tard’s food program showed up as an expense, not as a SKU list

DeskSeptember 8, 2026
Eric Lazare

Thirteen thousand Żabka stores do not reset a U.S. cooler

DeskSeptember 5, 2026
Rona Schwartz

Couche-Tard named energy drinks and nicotine, not “beverage,” for the inside gain

DeskSeptember 2, 2026
Eric Lazare

Casey’s merchant says Wawa and Sheetz made the gas-station meal normal

DeskAugust 29, 2026
Eric Lazare

A dispensed program is a person on the clock, not a door

DeskAugust 27, 2026
Rona Schwartz

If it cannot be eaten in the cab, it is not an impulse item

DeskAugust 20, 2026
Eric Lazare

A price pack has to beat the grocery print and the facing next to it

DeskAugust 13, 2026
Rona Schwartz

Murphy’s inside margin held at 20.1 percent. The box did not get a new set

DeskAugust 6, 2026
Eric Lazare

Żabka’s food model is a franchise kitchen, not a U.S. roller grill

DeskJuly 31, 2026
Rona Schwartz

Heat and sour only count if they survive four feet

DeskJuly 23, 2026
Eric Lazare

Fountain is a labor line. The bottle is not

DeskJuly 16, 2026
Rona Schwartz

Private label in this channel is a single the banner can receive

DeskJuly 9, 2026
Eric Lazare

Energy and water are different cooler doors

DeskJuly 2, 2026
Rona Schwartz

The convenience snack is still a single, not a sharing bag

DeskJune 25, 2026

Snackapalooza Daily

One morning note for buyers: categories, cooler sets, lot traffic, filings.

Desk · Snackapalooza