SALEM - The Circle K at 2762 E State St. in Salem has been officially sold and rebranded to a Tennessee-based convenience store company, MAPCO. 

This is MAPCO's first entry into the Mahoning Valley. Residents may recognize them from one of their 15+ locations in the Akron-Cleveland area.

MAPCO Express Inc. officially purchased the location from Circle K for just over $10 million on July 15.

According to a MAPCO representative, customers will still have access to many of the same products they're used to. These include Polar Pops, which have been renamed 'Hop Pop.' Management is currently working on securing access to Lawson's chip dip, a fan favorite in the local market. 

The store will no longer accept the Circle K Easy Pay debit card, but MAPCO encourages customers to look into their own rewards app that offers points on in-store items and gas. 

The acquisition is part of their expansion from their Southeastern roots in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia into locations in Ohio, Arkansas, Virginia, Kentucky and Mississippi. 

This comes in the wake of Circle K's purchase of the GetGo Cafe + Market franchise from its former parent company, Giant Eagle.

According to a press release from Circle K's parent company, Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., for their GetGo acquisition to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission, they agreed to sell a total of 35 convenience store locations to an FTC-approved buyer. That buyer was MAPCO.

The former Salem Circle K is part of that agreement.