The Cracker Barrel stores (not related to the restaurant chain) were a mess. Since the announcement of the acquisition, they cut hours, merchandise and quality at all the stores, and they weren't that great to begin with. A few new stores had been built in the last few years, but several older stragglers have been kept as well. One old pumper station, and a former non-gas 7/11 store were closed just before that purchase became final. Some were branded Chevron, but the vast majority were Shell, and I suspect that Couche-Tard will keep that.pseudo3d wrote:Well, the merger has quietly closed without a bunch of fanfare, and from what I'm reading, they'll only have to divest 70 stores though they apparently sold off over 200 stores prior to this, so the number comes out to close to 300...still less than I had expected. They've acquired a lot of stores recently, including Cracker Barrel in Louisiana and Tiger Tote in Texas, and I do wonder what their future plans are. Since the 1980s, they've had to exit a lot of markets...
I would love to see a full list of the 70 stores that were divested from CST Brands. Only 3 of the stores here (former Albertsons Express) would be large enough to be fully viable as a modern convenience store. All the others would require massive rebuilding to be made modern.