Casey's General Stores operates a chain of convenience stores concentrated in the Midwest, combining fuel sales with a made-from-scratch food program that has become a key differentiator from typical convenience store food offerings. Its stores are often located in smaller towns and rural areas where Casey's has built a strong local presence, sometimes serving as one of the only convenience retail options in a given community. The company's prepared food and pizza program generates notably higher margins than fuel sales, which tend to be a lower-margin, high-volume traffic driver that gets customers into the store where they then purchase higher-margin food and merchandise. Casey's has grown both through opening new store locations and through acquisitions of smaller convenience store chains, expanding its footprint gradually across the Midwest and neighboring regions.