5 things to know about convenience stores like Speedway

Speedway’s corporate headquarters was in Clark County near Enon in a facility now renamed the Enon Store Support Center by 7-Eleven, which cut hundreds of jobs at that location.

Here are 5 things to know about convenience stores:

1. 7-Eleven, whose parent company is based in Tokyo, Japan, has the largest market share in the growing U.S. convenience store sector.

2. There are 150,174 convenience stores in the U.S., 79% of which also sell motor fuel, as does Speedway, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores/Nielsen Convenience Industry Store Count.

3. The top ten states for number of convenience stores includes Ohio, which has 5,673 and ranks 7th, the data show.

4. Convenience stores sell about 80% of the motor fuels purchased in the United States, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores/Nielsen Convenience Industry Store Count.

5. The number of gas station/kiosk stores, which sell fuel but do not have enough in-store products to be considered convenience stores, totaled 13,346, declining 11.2% the past year and 49.3% over the past six years, the data show.

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