Green Trail Fuels Buys 25 Littlefield Express C-Stores

Green Trail Fuels has acquired Littlefield Express, a 25-location convenience store chain, from Littlefield Retail Group, according to a press release issued Oct. 30, 2026, by Downstream Energy Group, which advised Littlefield on the deal. The purchase covers company-operated convenience stores and travel centers across Arkansas and Oklahoma.

The deal puts a young joint venture on its largest footing since it launched. Green Trail Fuels is a partnership between HF Sinclair and UPOP Holdings that began operating earlier this year. With Littlefield Express in the portfolio, the brand now spans a wider regional footprint across the Southwest and Southern Plains.

What does the acquisition include?

Beyond fuel and merchandise retailing, the transaction brings Green Trail several operational layers:

• 25 company-operated convenience stores and travel centers
• Car washes at select sites
• Restaurant partnerships with McDonald's and Burger King

Those partnerships and ancillary services matter for a buyer building scale in fuel-adjacent retail. They give the sites foodservice anchors and non-fuel revenue streams.

Littlefield Express was founded in 2014, though its parent company had operated since 1946. The chain grew out of a family business with eight decades of history in fuel and petroleum operations.

Why did the Littlefield family sell?

The sellers framed the move as a narrowing of focus, not an exit from energy. The Littlefield family will continue to run its wholesale fuel distribution, petroleum hauling and propane distribution businesses.

"Selling the stores we built was not a decision we made lightly," Aaron Littlefield, president of Littlefield Companies, said in the announcement. "We are proud to hand these stores to Green Trail and look forward to focusing on our wholesale, transport and propane operations."

Littlefield Retail joins a growing list of family-owned convenience retailers that have sold their stores and left the industry this year, according to the release. The consolidation wave has swept up multi-generation operators as larger, better-capitalized buyers pursue scale.

For Green Trail, the acquisition deepens an existing presence. The joint venture operates three banners, according to its website:

• 7-2-11, with stores in the Four Corners area of the Southwest
• JR's Country Stores, based in Colorado
• Green Trail, which currently has sites in Oklahoma

The Littlefield Express locations sit squarely inside the Green Trail banner's existing Oklahoma territory and extend it into Arkansas.

What comes next?

The deal signals two parallel trends in convenience retail. Well-funded joint ventures are consolidating regional store networks, while family owners are divesting retail to concentrate on wholesale fuel logistics. Green Trail, barely a year into its existence, now holds a 25-store platform with quick-service restaurant partners — a foundation it can build on through further acquisitions.