Family Express Automates Fuel Price Changes

VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Family Express teamed up with PriceAdvantage SMART Fuel Pricing to automate the process of implementing fuel price changes across its chain of convenience stores and gas stations.

"PriceAdvantage will help us be more efficient in our daily operations by automating our process for implementing new fuel prices," said Tom Navarre, vice president of petroleum marketing and logistics. "Further, this will give our store associates even more time to devote to outstanding, friendly customer service."

PriceAdvantage SMART Fuel Pricing is a specialized retail fuel pricing solution for the convenience store industry. It provides automation for the entire fuel pricing process -- from collection of competitive surveys, to sophisticated analysis for best price determination, to rapid speed-to-the-street price change execution with price change confirmation feedback.

Family Express, headquartered in Valparaiso, Ind., operates 50-plus convenience stores in northwest and north central Indiana. PriceAdvantage is a division of Skyline Products, based in Colorado Springs, Colo.