What next for White Hen? Convenience store giant faces huge challenges.(Business)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October, 2003 | by Comerford, Mike

Byline: Mike Comerford Daily Herald Business Writer In the convenience store industry, lately especially, convenience isn't a synonym for easy. As the area's convenience store industry prepares for this weekend's national trade show in Chicago, known as the NACS Show, significant changes loom.

With its parent company, Clark Retail Enterprises Inc., in bankruptcy, the area's largest regional convenience store chain, Oak Brook-based White Hen Pantry, is up for sale but it has been having trouble finding a suitable buyer. And the entire industry is being flooded with interlopers seeking to siphon convenience customers away with new products and discounted items. Once White Hen and 7-Eleven Inc. dominated the Chicago area; now Deerfield-based Walgreen...

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