Clifford Wallace, chief judge emeritus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, received the 2022 Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law on March 18.
March 05, 2021
Search “what is a convenience store” and Google will return about 453,000,000 results in half a second. The top definition a store with extended opening hours and in a convenient location, stocking a limited range of household goods and groceries” explains what’s on store shelves. It’s basic, but also correct.
On August 14, 1961, a key moment in our industry’s early years transpired when Speedee Mart founder Henry Boney called on 14 owners, presidents and general managers of convenience stores to attend a meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. Boney felt “sufficient growth of convenience food stores throughout the country was such that it warranted the formation of an association to cover that segment of the food industry.” Attendees agreed, and the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) was born.