A Couche-Tard convenience store in Montreal in September, 2024. The convenience-store operator says it is now selling one million meal bundles a week at its stores in North America alone.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. ATD-T is raising its bets that meal-deal promotions will be a major driver of growth for its business in the months ahead as the Canadian convenience-store operator plots its next takeover in an industry still ripe for consolidation.

Laval, Que.-based Couche-Tard, which owns the Circle K chain, said Tuesday that its calorie-bomb combinations, such as a hot dog, bag of chips and fountain soda for US$3, are gaining popularity and that it plans to expand the program. After a launch in the United States in late 2024 and in Canada earlier this year, the company says it is now

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