Case Study: Convenience Store Chain achieves lower TCO, reliable POS uptime, and rapid expansion with Fortinet

Fortinet Delivers Exceptional Value to a Large, Dispersed Convenience Store Chain

A rapidly growing U.S. convenience-store and gas station chain with 300 dispersed locations (adding 20–25 stores a year) faced a classic retail “multiplier” problem: network, security, cost, and compliance challenges multiplied across every site. Long travel times to remote stores and a small IT team with no network engineers made high availability, centralized management, and predictable total cost of ownership critical to avoid point-of-sale outages and support ongoing expansion.

The company deployed HA pairs of FortiGate NGFWs with built-in Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiClient plans, FortiGuard UTP services, and centralized FortiManager orchestration, using zero-touch provisioning and an MSP for operations. The result: lower TCO versus competitors, highly available and high-performing WAN with minimized POS downtime, faster incident response and clearer visibility, and scalable, low-effort rollouts that support continued growth without adding network engineers.