United States: sales of the convenience store industry 2011-2022, by format

In 2022, U.S. convenience stores generated approximately 539 billion U.S. dollars from motor fuel sales. Another 275 billion U.S. dollars came from in-store sales. The overall convenience store sector in the United States had sales of 814 billion U.S. dollars that year.

Convenience store count

Accounting for more than 16,000 locations in 2022, Texas was the state with the highest number of convenience stores in the United States. There were 4,000 more of these types of stores in Texas than there were in California, the state that stood in second place in terms of c-store count that year.

Salty snacks in U.S. convenience stores

With total sales reaching over 2.1 billion U.S. dollars, potato chips were the best-selling type of salty snack in convenience stores in the United States in 2022. Other popular salted snacks included tortilla chips, corn snacks, and crackers. In general, salty snacks made up approximately three percent of all in-store sales in U.S. convenience stores in that year.