A-Plus is an American convenience store chain owned & operated by Sunoco, Inc. The chain began life as the convenience store chain for Atlantic Petroleum in 1985, who earlier that year was spun off of ARCO, Inc. (ARCO itself was formed from the 1966 merger of Atlantic and Richfield Oil.) This was in response to more gas station having convenience stores instead of auto garages in order to keep down the cost of gasoline. In 1988, Sunoco bought Atlantic, and since Sunoco didn't have its own convenience store chain, A-Plus became Sunoco's chain by default. While Atlantic stations were converted to Sunoco by the mid-1990's, A-Plus grew, with Sunoco rebranding many company-owned stations in the Northeast with convenience stores into A-Plus. Sunoco has even converted some garages into convenience stores with the A-Plus brand. Sunoco still used the A-Plus logo from the Atlantic days until 1999, when Sunoco updated its own logo and completely r