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Celebrate! Take the Stress Out of Holiday Alcohol Sales
December always packs in a lot of celebrations (and let’s be real, everyone likes New Year’s Eve more than New Year’s Day anyway), which means that alcohol sales are on the rise. If your store sells alcoholic beverages, make sure your team is ready for higher demand!...
Celebrate! Take the Stress Out of Holiday Alcohol Sales
December always packs in a lot of celebrations (and let’s be real, everyone likes New Year’s Eve more than New Year’s Day anyway), which means that alcohol sales are on the rise. If your store sells alcoholic beverages, make sure your team is ready for higher demand!...
Be Food Allergy Aware
“Are your glazed donuts nut-free?” “Does that sandwich have mayonnaise?” “Where are your gluten-free snacks?” When you hear questions like these from your customers, it might be tempting to write them off as high maintenance. Before you do that, though, consider this:...
Be Food Allergy Aware
“Are your glazed donuts nut-free?” “Does that sandwich have mayonnaise?” “Where are your gluten-free snacks?” When you hear questions like these from your customers, it might be tempting to write them off as high maintenance. Before you do that, though, consider this:...
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Controlling Costs in Your Convenience Store
When it comes to controlling costs in a convenience store, it's not just the dollars flying out the window that will get you. Sometimes, it's the less obvious things that will keep you from reaching your short and long term goals. Of course you have to keep your eye...
What Do Convenience Store Customers Want?
Think you’re not losing customers to online stores? Think again. While many retailers are scrambling to compete with online competitors or develop a booming online sales strategy, convenience stores have felt mostly insulated from the threats of e-commerce. After all,...
Breaking Down an LMS: Learning-Management-System
An LMS – or learning management system – has many benefits for convenience stores. Let’s take a look at each element of an LMS one at a time.LearningThe core of a learning management system is the transfer of knowledge from the people who have it to the people who...
Social Media Recap: Our Most Popular Convenience Store Posts from 2018
Continuing our 2018 recap of most popular convenience store articles and most talked about training programs, we’re turning our attention to some of our favorite and most popular social media posts from the past year.Check out the posts we discuss below and make sure...
ICYMI: Most Popular Articles from Ready Convenience in 2018
Did you know that here at Ready Convenience, we publish new articles related to the convenience store industry nearly every week? It’s a lot to keep up with, so in case you missed anything, here’s a recap of our most popular articles from 2018.What Workplace...
Basic Training
Are you looking for a new approach to customer service? Before you look too far, you may first want to examine your current practices. Sometimes, the pursuit of something new causes managers to forget about basic principles of customer service and employee training...
How Your Reporting Policies Lead to Harassment Prevention
You should already know how harassment laws apply to your convenience store, common myths about sexual harassment, and examples of many different types of harassment. All these topics are important for you to understand as a supervisor and to include in your...
What Workplace Harassment Looks Like
When you think about workplace harassment, you may immediately think about the most high-profile stories of sexual harassment where a man in a powerful position harasses women. While those types of stories may dominate your news feed, they are far from the only types...
The Trickle-Down Effect of Employee Training
In the Rocky Mountains, snow pack during the winter determines how much water is available for towns, businesses, families, ranchers, and farmers for the next summer season. This is the original “trickle-down effect,” and it has nothing to do with economics. The idea...
How to Choose the Right Training Partner
What’s the difference between a vendor and a partner? Vendors sell what you think you want, partners deliver what you need. Vendors talk, partners listen. Vendors produce products, partners create solutions. This is all true whether you’re adding a new product line or...
One Word: Gratitude
Last week we once again had the honor of exhibiting at the NACS Show, and as always it was a remarkable experience. The event held true to its theme – “Connect” – and we were privileged to share ideas with hundreds of c-store pros. So much preparation goes into an...
Chicago!
After 51 weeks or so of planning, we’re finally here at the NACS show! This year’s theme is “Connect,” and we plan to do just that. What does connecting mean to us?First, connecting means sharing. We love talking about our suite of e-learning solutions for the...
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