(File Photo of the Giant Eagle logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) The official announcement came Monday that Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. has received 270 GetGo gas stations from Giant Eagle in a $1.6 billion sale. Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. is a Canadian company that owns a bunch of gas station brands already and one of them is Circle K. According to a statement, Giant Eagle said selling GetGo will allow the company to focus on its supermarket and pharmacy businesses.