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Customer Service Begins in the Interview
Job interviews are stressful experiences for everyone. This holds true for c-store interviews, too. Think about it. Do you feel comfortable talking about yourself for half an hour to convince someone you don’t even know that you’re competent, intelligent and a good...
Customer Service Begins in the Interview
Job interviews are stressful experiences for everyone. This holds true for c-store interviews, too. Think about it. Do you feel comfortable talking about yourself for half an hour to convince someone you don’t even know that you’re competent, intelligent and a good...
Creating a Positive First Impression
Like a field in baseball, the condition of your store affects how well you and your team perform. Think of it this way – your success depends on the perceptions customers form about your operation. Like the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a positive...
Creating a Positive First Impression
Like a field in baseball, the condition of your store affects how well you and your team perform. Think of it this way – your success depends on the perceptions customers form about your operation. Like the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a positive...
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Baby Boomers Still Booming
A lot of marketing focus lately has been squarely on capturing the attention of the millennial generation. Considering their buying power over time, this is a logical strategy. Smart marketers though, and especially those in the convenience store industry, have...
Your Competition is Changing – Are You Ready?
You’ve heard the joke about the two hikers and a bear, right? Two hikers encounter an angry bear in the forest. One of them opens his backpack, pulls out his running shoes, and begins putting them on as fast as he can. The other watches and says, “You don’t think...
How Technology is Changing the Management Experience
Technology -- can’t live with it, can’t live without it. This is especially true for store managers. While technology has changed customer expectations in a way that can sometimes be tough to handle, it’s more than made up for it by streamlining many management tasks....
How to Lead Successful Training Sessions
Any successful training program is multi-faceted. In addition to your formal training program, short in-person training sessions with your team are critical to your team's overall success. Whether you are following up on an online PCI compliance course, training on a...
PCI Compliance Training
Does your store accept credit cards? That’s like asking a fish if it swims. Really, in today’s digital age, credit cards are by far the most popular method of paying for goods and services. And while credit card use is convenient for your customers, it too often...
Avoid Training FAILs
Put Jon through the online tobacco compliance course: Check. Have the new cashier read the orientation manual: Check. Show Sue how to clean the hot dog machine: Check. If your day feels like a series of never-ending training to-dos, you’re probably doing it wrong....
Responsible Tobacco Sales Training
When it comes to regulated products such as tobacco, your sales strategy has as much to do with compliance as it does with the products you offer. Every state has laws restricting the sale of tobacco products to minors, and those laws mean business. Breaking them, or...
What You Don’t Know about Customer Loyalty Can Hurt You
April is Customer Loyalty Month. In today’s social media driven world, it seems like everything has its own month. In fact, April is also Frog Month and Straw Hat month. So, you might be thinking, what makes Customer Loyalty Month so important? If you’re a business...
Spring Training: Set Yourself Up for a Winning Season
Baseball legend Tommy Lasorda once said, “There are three kinds of people in baseball: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.” This is true in the retail and c-store industries, too. So what sets those who make...
Severe Weather Preparedness Training
As the seasons change, so do the chances of severe weather in your neighborhood. Weather events such as tornadoes and severe thunderstorms threaten not only your physical store, but also the lives of your employees and customers. Severe weather preparedness training...
Who’s Minding the Store? How to Stop Employee Theft
Employee theft always comes as a shock. After all, these people are family. But it happens—even in the best run operations. In fact, according to the United States Chamber of Commerce, 75 percent of employees steal from their workplace and most do it repeatedly. The...
Focus on Holiday Safety
Odds are your Christmas tree is not going to burn down your building (but water it well, anyway). Chances are also good that nobody’s going to eat a Poinsettia (it's a myth that they're poisonous, anyway). And you can probably bet that your assistant manager is not...
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