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5 Ways to Recognize Leadership Potential

5 Ways to Recognize Leadership Potential

For any business to grow, it needs to fill a continuing cycle of leadership positions. Most managers in the convenience store industry started out in a support position and moved their way up. Someone, somewhere along the way, saw potential in them and put it to work...

5 Ways to Recognize Leadership Potential

For any business to grow, it needs to fill a continuing cycle of leadership positions. Most managers in the convenience store industry started out in a support position and moved their way up. Someone, somewhere along the way, saw potential in them and put it to work...

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Is Custom Training Right for You?

Is Custom Training Right for You?

Your employee training program is the backbone of your business. Without it, your employees would have no chance of success in your store. Therefore, you want to be sure you’re providing them with the best materials available in order to develop the skills they need....

How an LMS Solves Convenience Store Challenges

How an LMS Solves Convenience Store Challenges

As a training manager in the convenience store industry, you’re aware of the challenges of working in a fast-paced environment. You rely on your store managers to implement the company's employee training program while juggling a myriad of day-to-day convenience store...

If You’re Not Cross Training, You’re Doing it Wrong

If You’re Not Cross Training, You’re Doing it Wrong

In the convenience store industry, flexibility isn’t just helpful, it’s a job requirement. That’s why cross training is so important. When employees are trained for more than one position, it allows you to quickly handle staffing shortages and unexpected busy times....

How Can You Help Your Employees Manage Stress?

How Can You Help Your Employees Manage Stress?

Everyone experiences stress, and some jobs can be more stressful than others. While we can’t always control the causes of stress, we can control how we respond to them. As a convenience store manager, it’s important to not only manage stress in your own life, but also...

How to Manage Your Moonlighting Employees

How to Manage Your Moonlighting Employees

About 13 million people — roughly 8.3 percent of the workers — have more than one job. Given the ever-present staffing challenges in the service industry, it's not uncommon for hourly employees to moonlight with other retail or foodservice operations, possibly even...

Cash Handling Best Practices

Cash Handling Best Practices

As a convenience store manager, your days are busy. Making cash deposits may just seem like another task on a busy to-do list. The biggest mistake you can make, however, is to treat cash handling as simply part of your routine. Follow these best practices: Stick to a...

No Beer for You: Preventing Underage Alcohol Sales

No Beer for You: Preventing Underage Alcohol Sales

Excessive alcohol consumption is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths, and teenagers are especially at risk. A recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimates that approximately 400,000 adolescents in the United States ages 12-17 have an alcohol use...

Don’t Let Summer Supply Shortages Get You Down

Don’t Let Summer Supply Shortages Get You Down

The inevitable increase in summer traffic to your convenience store may seem like a blessing and a curse. You’re glad that foot traffic has picked up again, but continued supply chain issues raise a whole new set of customer service issues to resolve. It’s important...

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