NACS Show 2026 coverage plan

Snackapalooza covers snack, beverage, and CPG as they move through grocery and convenience. At the NACS Show we cover the convenience and fuel retailing industry’s inside-the-box programs. The reporter responsible is Eric Lazare, editor.

Assigned files

Snack launches that can survive a 4-foot impulse set. Cooler and dispensed-beverage economics. Private-label programs a c-store banner can actually own. A foodservice file on programs that have to earn a facing next to a fuel island. Lot traffic: EIA weekly regular and diesel read against what buyers said about impulse and cooler velocity — not a four-grade pump roundup.

90-day publish obligation

Assigned files will be published on this site, with staff bylines, within 90 days of the show. We will not substitute grocery-trade rewrites for those files.

Full assignment memo: Snackapalooza’s NACS Show file.