[5] In 1991, the company owned 986 convenience stores in the U.S. states of Texas, California, and Georgia, all operated by it as "Stop-N-Go", and it had 6,300 employees.
In the first quarter of the next fiscal year, National Convenience Stores lost $3 million.
[6] In 1992, Houston restaurateur Ghulam Bombaywala acquired one million shares, or 5%, of National Convenience Stores.
[4] The combined company years later became part of Valero Energy Corporation's retail business as its CornerStore (later spun off as CST Brands, now part of Laval, Quebec-based Alimentation Couche-Tard since 2017 - as a result, Couche-Tard subsidiary Circle K (which purchased UtoteM back in 1984) now owns the retail assets of CornerStore and its past assets, which has become in fact a spiritual merger of two past UtoteM franchises (the Houston and San Antonio franchises that became Stop N Go) came full circle.
In 2002, National Convenience and Lloyd's of London settled with three families, paying them a total of $1,140,000 (equivalent to $1,931,145.24 in 2023).