There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th.

But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

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It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where our mission is to serve you

and empower you to make better financial decisions in your life.

In this episode, I'm excited to talk about how my favorite convenience stores are all on

our growth tear and why this is so helpful to your wallet.

So I know it's crazy I find convenience stores exciting but what can I tell you?

There's something I don't find exciting is the price of lots of foods that are going up and

away. I'm going to tell you what's getting more expensive and actually what's not.

So the big run up in gasoline gets people more focused on breaking habits and thinking about

where am I buying my gasoline? Why am I buying it there?

And I know the prices in a lot of places have come down some people get more focused on it

when they're going up and then they kind of get used to the prices when they kind of level off

or go down a little but it's still a lot of money we're paying and I talked about four weeks

ago about how the gasoline market has gone through such an enormous change and what's been happening

is the market is state after state after state the market is being dominated by independent

retailers not the traditional oil companies traditional oil companies are hideous operators

of retail gas stations they're pitiful at it and the volume of sales of gas all going to

these big mostly regional players quick trip that's based in Tulsa Oklahoma that's in Arizona,

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