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AI: Just How Convenient is It?
Artificial intelligence has come a long way in a short time, and it’s taking hold in every industry. Convenience stores have a lot to gain from embracing this new technology. Using AI in convenience stores can help your employees become more efficient, which is a...
AI: Just How Convenient is It?
Artificial intelligence has come a long way in a short time, and it’s taking hold in every industry. Convenience stores have a lot to gain from embracing this new technology. Using AI in convenience stores can help your employees become more efficient, which is a...
Train Employees to De-Escalate Difficult Situations
When you run a convenience store, you have control over certain aspects of the business. Products, store layout, employees, and policies—all are carefully considered and chosen. Your customers, however, will always be a wild card. You can’t control who’s having a good...
Train Employees to De-Escalate Difficult Situations
When you run a convenience store, you have control over certain aspects of the business. Products, store layout, employees, and policies—all are carefully considered and chosen. Your customers, however, will always be a wild card. You can’t control who’s having a good...
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Promoting from Within to Control Staffing Costs
You’ll decrease turnover, reduce hiring costs, and improve morale when you implement a staff development policy that focuses on promoting from within. Developing employees to build a career at your company – rather than just clock in and out every shift – will...
8 Workplace Hazards for Convenience Stores
Workplace hazards exist in every industry, with some types of jobs having more inherent risks than others. These eight hazards are some of the most common in the convenience store industry: Lifting and handling inventory – improper lifting or lowering of products can...
Mistakes New Trainers Make
Training is a job responsibility of most convenience store managers, yet many may not be trained themselves on how to manage such an important assignment. New trainers can prepare themselves for success by avoiding these common mistakes. Mistake #1: Failing to Set...
Do’s and Don’ts of Selling Alcohol
With alcohol sales on the rise, convenience store operators must focus even more on ensuring that their employees are selling alcohol responsibly and according to the law. Follow these do’s and don’ts: Do: Know the federal, state, and local laws about selling alcohol...
Get Street Smart about Customer Loyalty
When it comes to your c-store customers, what are you most grateful for? If you said “loyalty,” you’re on the right track. After all, you’ll spend six times more to attract a new customer than to keep an old one. It doesn’t take a math whiz to figure out where your...
Are You Thankful for Your Customers?
Your customers have choices – choices of where to fuel up, where to stop for a quick snack, and where to buy a meal when they’re out and about. How do you show your appreciation for them when they choose your store? Use this season of Thanksgiving to let customers...
Technology Solutions for 2020 and Beyond
Quickly adapting to change has been the mainstay of 2020 for essential convenience stores and many other retailers. For many, adaptation has been rooted in both old-school ingenuity and swift implementation of new or advancing technology. While many stores were...
Biggest Compliance Risks for Convenience Stores
From workplace safety guidelines to consumer privacy regulations, convenience stores face a wide array of hidden business risks that can have costly implications. Compliance – or the lack of it – is one of these risks. In business, the term “compliance” refers to the...
With Great Profit Comes Great Responsibility
Selling alcohol can be very profitable for convenience stores, and it can also be very risky. If you or one of your staff members fails to sell alcohol responsibly and according to the law, there can be serious consequences. People could being injured or killed in...
Mapping Out Your Planograms
Planograms are an important part of any retail operation, especially convenience stores. They start with a category management team at the corporate level and end in front of customers at your store. Let’s take a look at the path they travel from beginning to end....
Keeping Employees Motivated
The last quarter of any year tends to bring a mix of reflection on the year so far and anticipation for new opportunities in the year to come. As we approach the end of 2020, we all have more to reflect on than ever before and a great deal of uncertainty about what’s...
Store Care – Are You Doing It Right?
Cleanliness is a factor of store care that may not be obvious when you keep up on it, but it sure grabs a customer's attention when you don’t. How clean, picked up, and orderly you keep your store has a direct impact on the overall customer experience. This starts...
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