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Delivering a Sustainable Cold Chain: How On-Site Production Is Revolutionizing the Bagged Ice Industry The bagged ice industry has a growing environmental problem. Traditional mass production and distribution to C-stores depend heavily on carbon-emitting processes. Centralized plants consume enormous amounts of electricity running heavy machinery and refrigeration. Diesel-guzzling trucks transport ice over hundreds of miles…

Left Out in the Cold: How C-Stores Are Overcoming Bagged Ice Supply Chain Breakdowns Summertime for convenience stores is defined by surging demand for one essential item – bagged ice. Yet increasingly, stumbling ice supply chains are leaving C-stores and consumers out in the cold. Between driver shortages, fuel costs, equipment issues, and sheer distances,…