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Combined local, state and federal tax on a gallon of gasoline in Alabama as of July 2012.
Percentage of candy purchases at convenience stores, which were classified by shoppers as unplanned or impulse purchases.
Convenience store customers purchase coffee more often than gasoline.
Average time it takes a customer to enter a convenience store, make a purchase and depart.
Amount of beer sold by U.S. convenience stores each year, or one-third of all beer purchased in the U.S.
Percentage of all fuel sold in the U.S. in 2011 that was purchased at convenience stores.
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