Extra is a Mexican

convenience store A convenience store, convenience shop, corner store or corner shop is a small retail business that stocks a range of everyday items such as coffee, groceries, snack foods, confectionery, soft drinks, ice creams, tobacco products, lottery ti ...

chain owned by

Grupo Modelo Grupo Modelo is a large brewery in Mexico that exports beer to most countries of the world. Its export brands include ''Corona'', ''Modelo'', and '' Pacífico''. Grupo Modelo also brews brands that are intended solely for the domestic Mexican ...

, which started operations in 1993. In 2007 the chain closed 650 storesCerrará Grupo Modelo 650 Tiendas Súper Extra
Tabasco Hoy, October 23, 2007. and in 2009 started another restructuring plan.Grupo Modelo reinventa las Tiendas Extra
CNN Expansion, June 4, 2009. It competes fiercely with OXXO from

Femsa Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as FEMSA, is a Mexican multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico. It operates the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world and the ...

7-Eleven 7-Eleven, Inc., stylized as 7-ELEVE, is a multinational chain of retail convenience stores, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The chain was founded in 1927 as an ice house storefront in Dallas. It was named Tote'm Stores between 1928 and 1946. A ...

from Casa Chapa, SuperCity from

Soriana Organización Soriana is a Mexican public company and a major retailer in Mexico with more than 824 stores. Soriana is a grocery and department store retail chain headquartered in Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico. The company is 100% capita ...

and

Circle K Circle K Stores, Inc. is a Canadian chain of convenience stores headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by the multinational company Couche-Tard. Founded in 1951 in El Paso, Texas, the company filed for bankruptcy protection in ...

from

Alimentation Couche-Tard Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., or simply Couche-Tard, is a Canadian multinational operator of convenience stores. The company has 15,000 stores across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuani ...

. The point of sale is provided by IBM.Firman contrato Tiendas Extra e IBM para mejorar puntos de ventaarchived copy
El Monetario, February 28, 2011. In 2014, Couche-Tard sold its Extra stores to Grupo Modelo, a brewery owned by

AB InBev Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, commonly known as AB InBev, is an American-Belgian multinational drink and brewing company based in Leuven, Belgium. AB InBev has a global functional management office in New York City, and regional headquarters ...

Gallery

File:ExtraAcapulco.jpg, Extra in Acapulco. File:ExtraPeriferico.jpg, Extra in Durango.

References

Convenience stores Retail companies of Mexico Alimentation Couche-Tard Retail companies established in 1993 {{retail-company-stub