THUNDER BAY -- Get ready to say goodbye to Mac's Convenience Stores.
The Quebec-based company Couche-Tard, which owns the brand name for Mac's, is changing them all to Circle K stores.
Thunder Bay currently has about a dozen Mac's stores. The 54-year-old brand name is being retired, as the company is uniting the majority of its convenience stores worldwide under the Circle K banner.
The change has been in the works for more than two years and follows several acquisitions by the company. Couche-Tard already operates about 125 Circle K stores in Atlantic Canada.
The Circle K name will begin rolling out across Canada in May 2017, following rollouts in the United States and Europe that begin next year. No job cuts are expected among the approximately 8,000 employees that work at about 800 Mac's stores in Canada.
