Quenching your thirst is as easy as popping into the nearest convenience store. Whether you're craving soda, beer, bottled water, iced tea, wine or an energy drink, the local convenience store's refrigerated case likely has exactly what you want. Beverages are big business for the convenience store channel. The National Association of Convenience Stores' (NACS) list of the Top 10 convenience store product categories (ranked by 2004 sales) includes three beverage entries — non-alcoholic packaged beverages rank second (up from third place in 2003), beer ranks fourth and fluid milk products rank eighth (up from ninth place in 2003).
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