Missing SA/Speedway Shops

Hi all,
There was a certain MSC that offered gas station shops here in the Midwest.
They were quick, easy, and paid pretty well by the end of the month. Being retired and lazy, they were my bread and butter account.
Well, that MSC lost them as of 1/1/2020. The scheduler didn't know if they had gone with another MSC or just ended the program.
Does anyone know if they did end the program or if they went with another MSC?

Thanks!

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I'm assuming that's the gas station name in your thread title. No one can answer your question, as you have mentioned the client. If you edit your thread title back to "Missing Gas Stations", someone may be able to give you some info.

I live in the Midwest. We have that brand of stations here. I am signed up with over 100 companies, none of which have shopped or are now shopping that client (if they did, it would be a massive fail, because all of their locations consistently have issues of trash on lot, pumps and islands in poor condition, overflowing trash cans, etc.). So, maybe they were shopped in your part of the Midwest, but not mine. Though they should be!

They were SA for many years. Speedway bought them out last year and they have been changing over to Speedway stores.
Now the unnamed MSC has lost them as a client, so I suspect they have dropped the program entirely.
Which is too bad for me, because that was an easy, enjoyable, and steady $500-$600 a month!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/2020 02:51AM by dvmac.

It's not hard to rename your thread title to get some answers. Like ceasesmith suggested. But I think you could rename it, "Who shops gas stations in the Midwest?" And then, in the post, explain that a gas station you shopped in the Midwest isn't being shopped by the old MSC. Maybe someone will have answers.

I don't have an answer, but you could answer the question without violating an agreement with the MSC because the question did not specifically ask WHO shopped them, but whether they quit or went somewhere else. That is of course if the question was not edited.

WIth that said, my assumption is that SW ended the program because none of their longstanding locations appear to be shopped, and conformed the new locations to coincide with the rest of the company's practices. Also SW and SA have been the same company for many many years (at least 30, probably more) They probably just decided to switch the branding over. Where I live the SAs became SWs in the early 90's.

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WIth that said, my assumption is that SW ended the program because none of their longstanding locations appear to be shopped, and conformed the new locations to coincide with the rest of the company's practices. Also SW and SA have been the same company for many many years (at least 30, probably more) They probably just decided to switch the branding over. Where I live the SAs became SWs in the early 90's.

You're pretty close. SuperAmerica was part of Ashland, that got bought by Marathon, which owned Speedway. They merged the two and the SA outside of the core area were rebranded as Speedway. A few years later they sold the core SA locations. That's why the ones in your area were rebranded, but they have not been the same company for many years. Marathon's Speedway subsidiary bought SA again last year and have switches the remaining ones over to Speedway branding. Speedway has not been shopped for years according to the company that shops Marathon, their owner. So the shops going away are simply a result of the purchase.

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This may be the wrong place to post, as it does not apply to shopping.

At four Speedways over four days in the greater Dayton, Oh. area this month, gasoline contaminated with diesel fuel was sold. Vehicles with up to four figure damage is being reported, with Marathon accepting responsibility.

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