Allsup's gives out $1,000 bonuses

SANTA FE — Allsup’s Convenience Stores, the Clovis-based chain that operates throughout New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, is giving its employees a grand bonus.

That’s a grand as in $1,000 to each full-time, non-executive employee, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.

Allsup’s said in a statement to the New Mexican that the windfall was “a result of the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed” in December.

The bonus went to employees who have been with the company at least a year.

Allsup’s operates 317 stores in New Mexico, West Texas and Oklahoma and employs 3,200 full-time and part-time employees. It did not say how many of its employees received bonuses, which went out this week.

Lonnie and Barbara Allsup started the Allsup’s chain in 1964, promoting their 24-hour stores with the slogan, “There’s one near you.”

Lonnie Allsup died Jan. 28 at age 84.

The couple has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to area charities in the past 15 years.