Convenience stores find new customers with coffee, desserts
Jul 15, 2016
Convenience stores are gaining a big customer base through cafe-style coffee and bakeries that are cheaper in price but satisfactory in quality, industry officials said Friday.The industry's leading chain CU said its January-June sales of brewed coffee were up 64.2 percent from the same period last year.The sales of baked goods, made in the store's own oven, increased 12.6 percent, and that for cakes and other desserts jumped 92.1 percent, it said.Seven Eleven reported a 306.2-percent leap in sa