Stewart’s Shops plans to acquire four convenience stores in upstate New York, according to a report by the Watertown Daily Times.
Stewart’s Shops officials said the company is under contract to purchase Sliders Food Mart stores in Clayton, Harrisville, Croghan and Lowville, New York.
Robin Cooper, Stewart’s Shops public relations manager, told the newspaper that “they’ve been on our radar for a while.” The company hopes to finalize the deal in the next few months, he added.
Stewart’s officials have been talking to the owners of the four Sliders Food Marts for about a year, said Cooper.
The W.B Payne Co. Inc., a Boonville, New York-based insurance company, owns Sliders.
The companies did not respond to a CSP request for comment by posting time.
Sliders offers CITGO-branded gasoline. Inside, it stocks a variety of grocery, dairy, fountain drinks, slushies, coffee, candy and snacks. The stores feature Chester’s Chicken, and fresh food from its Eatery includes pizza, deli sandwiches, salads, wraps, melts or subs hand made in store on fresh baked rolls, as well as fresh-sliced deli meats and cheeses and deli salads. Age-restricted items include beer, flavored malt beverages, tobacco products, cigars and cigarettes. The stores also offer hemp and CBD products.
- Stewart’s Shops is No. 22 on CSP’s 2025 Top 202 ranking of c-store chains by U.S. store count.
Stewart’s Shops has seen a lot of mergers-and-acquisitions activity in recent months. In July, it sold four convenience stores to Mirabito Convenience Stores and two locations to Prestige Petroleum Corp. to comply with a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order to divest certain sites for competitive reasons and to facilitate its acquisition of convenience retailer Jolley Associates. That deal for 45 locations closed in December.
Founded in 1945, the Ballston Spa, New York-based Stewart’s Shops convenience-store chain operates in upstate New York, New Hampshire and southern Vermont. The chain operates approximately 360 Stewart’s Shops and 45 Jolley c-stores.
Stewart’s is known regionally for its milk, ice cream, coffee, to-go food, gasoline and other convenience items. The company has an extensive production, distribution and warehousing network that supplies its stores.
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