Convenience Stores

The US convenience store industry has seen only one year of aggregate store sales declines since 1975 — one of the most durable long-term growth records in American retail.

The business model is high-frequency and necessity-adjacent: fuel traffic drives footfall, basket sizes are small but repeat rates are high, and the deeply local, neighborhood-scale format is largely insulated from e-commerce substitution. That combination creates a recession-resistant profile that shows up in the near-unbroken 50-year sales chart.

Skupos was a data platform serving the c-store channel, connecting convenience retailers with CPG brands for targeted promotions and insights.

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