By Samantha Oller, Senior Editor/Fuels, CSP
LAS VEGAS — More than a decade ago, major oil companies largely exited the retail business in the United States, as upstream profits dwarfed downstream retail opportunities. One of those global oil giants—Royal Dutch Shell, The Hague, Netherlands—has since amassed a massive network of 43,000 branded sites in 80 countries, including 14,000 in the United States. These U.S. locations are operated solely by Shell-branded marketers and dealers, but soon, they will be joined by Shell itself.
In an interview with CSP Fuels at the 2018 NACS Show in Las Vegas, Sydney Kimball, vice president of Shell Retail Americas, shared a few ways the company is committing to boost its retail presence …
“We’re focused on having the best customer value proposition of all of the brands or offers in the United States,” said Kimball, who added that Shell has been raising its brand standards and its emphasis on factors that feed into the store experience, including customer service, washroom cleanliness and forecourt appearance.
“Over the last two years, if sites aren’t doing what we’ve indicated they need to do, we’re pushing them out,” Kimball said. “We really haven’t lived our brand standards like this for many years, and we’re coming to a special point over these six months where we’ve given people time to upgrade their image and really show up well, and if they’re not doing that, we’re not going to let them represent the Shell brand anymore.”
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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