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Career Paths Are Key to Employee Retention
There’s a million different ways to improve employee retention at your store, but many of them focus only on the short term. Recognizing your employees with an Employee of the Month program is nice, but that can often fade into background noise for your more...
Career Paths Are Key to Employee Retention
There’s a million different ways to improve employee retention at your store, but many of them focus only on the short term. Recognizing your employees with an Employee of the Month program is nice, but that can often fade into background noise for your more...
What Do Reskilling and Upskilling Mean for Convenience Stores?
The convenience industry is constantly evolving; it’s important to make sure your employees are well-trained and prepared for anything. Advances in technology, staffing shortages, or any number of events could lead to employees needing enhanced – or even entirely new...
What Do Reskilling and Upskilling Mean for Convenience Stores?
The convenience industry is constantly evolving; it’s important to make sure your employees are well-trained and prepared for anything. Advances in technology, staffing shortages, or any number of events could lead to employees needing enhanced – or even entirely new...
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Are Your Employees Getting the Support They Need?
You do a lot to support your employees. After all, employees that feel supported are happier at work, and those benefits extend from their own wellbeing to the overall atmosphere and operations of your convenience store. But how can you make sure that your efforts are...
Conduct a Training Needs Analysis
New employees bring with them an inventory of knowledge and skills, education, and experience they already possess. To train the unknown, you need to find out the breadth of that knowledge and skill and what still needs to be learned. Just be sure the training to be...
Safety First: Prepared Employees Promote Team Safety
Tasks and duties are much easier to complete when the person assigned knows how to complete them. This makes things run more smoothly at offices, factories, and especially convenience stores. After all, there’s a reason prior experience is so important when recruiting...
Cash In on Foodservice in Your C-Store
As part of Customer Loyalty Month in April, you discovered how training, marketing, hiring and service all play a role in building a base of repeat customers. The products you offer above and beyond the staples of convenience store inventory also affect customer...
Train Your Staff with the 6 Cs of Robbery Protocol
As an owner or manager of a convenience store, it’s your responsibility to take all possible steps to prevent a robbery from happening. Unfortunately, even the best prevention strategies can’t completely protect your store. You can, however, make sure your staff is...
Implementing Learner-Centered Training in Convenience Stores
Learner-centered training is taking off around the country, but it isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. For convenience stores, focusing your training on your employees can improve application and retention of key learning points. So, if you want to train your...
Yes, You Do Need to Sweat the Small Stuff
Great leaders are visionaries. They are able to see multiple avenues to success in the big picture while leaving the details to the doers of the world. As a convenience store manager, your role often falls right in the middle. You must be a leader and a doer. You must...
Behavior Modeling: Your Employees Are Watching You
While onboarding employees at your store, one of the most important topics you cover is your expectations for the job, including what the employees do and how they act while on the clock. Usually, employees are very good at meeting those expectations – for a couple...
Stop Talking and Start Listening
As a convenience store manager, you probably spend a lot of time talking. Every day, you have to talk with employees, customers, vendors, and the list goes on. If you had to put a timer to it, how many hours do you think you spend in a work day just talking? Whatever...
Preventing Bitcoin Scams in Convenience Stores
Bitcoin ATMs aren’t quite the same as traditional ATMs, but they are quickly spreading into a lot of the same places. Convenience stores across the country have taken advantage of this trend, and many are enjoying increased foot traffic and business because of it....
Risk Factors for Foodborne Illness (and How to Avoid Them)
Offering foodservice options in your convenience store can mean a big increase in profits. That potential reward, however, comes with potential risk. If food is served and sold on your premises, you and your staff have a responsibility to ensure that basic food safety...
Training Increases Retention at Convenience Stores
Everyone wants to make a good first impression, and that extends to businesses and stores, too. Many convenience stores are struggling with retaining their employees, especially after the Great Resignation, and these first impressions are often part of the problem. If...
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