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Greg Lindenberg

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Greg Lindenberg has been covering convenience-store news and writing about the c-store and gas station industries for more than a quarter of a century. He specializes in mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) news.

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Financing

The owner of Circle K wants to buy the owner of 7-Eleven

Alimentation Couche-Tard has made an offer to buy Seven & i Holdings, the owner of 7-Eleven, in a deal that would merge the two largest convenience store chains in the country.

Financing

Casey’s to acquire 198 CEFCO convenience stores for $1.1B

Casey's, one of the country's largest pizza sellers, will get a geographic boost in the South thanks to the deal.

The decision could force card companies to negotiate a settlement more favorable to restaurants and other merchants.

But is a revival of the retail-restaurant hybrids, which shuttered all locations last month, in the works?

A class-action suit contends the food shops’ staffs weren’t alerted of the closings at least 60 days in advance, as required under federal and state law.

The brands' recently formed parent company, Outfox Hospitality, has shut down all 35 of its locations in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas.