A dog named Roxy waits outside a Couche-Tard convenience store in Montreal, April 18, 2012. Canadian convenience-store company Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc has struck a deal to buy Norwegian company Statoil Fuel and Retail ASA for 15.9 billion crowns ($2.8 billion) to gain a foothold in Europe's top-performing economies. Couche-Tard, which operates convenience store chains in Canada and the United States, will pay 53 crowns a share, a 52.5 percent premium, for SFR, Scandinavia's top gas-station chain operator. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi (CANADA - Tags: BUSINESS ANIMALS) - RTR30WQTChristinne Muschi—Reuters