Today was the last day for the April car wash promotion. The winning store will be announced Monday, May 4th.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO – The Kansas Lottery announced last week that it is the first lottery to offer the next-generation lottery game called PushPlay, the Kansas City Business Journal reports.
PushPlay game cards are instant lottery tickets that use an electronic player with an LCD screen to display the game. Players insert a card into the electronic player to activate and then play the game. Players accumulate points that are displayed on the LCD screen, with total points determining the prize won. Games can be validated and cashed without being played, with $1,000 the top prize on each game card.
PushPlay was developed by Scientific Games International Inc. Information found on www.nacsonline.com
Ironville Panther Mart is official! A throw back to good times! I was an Ironville Panther! What grade school did you go to?
In the first 117 days of this year we have provided service to 4,051,912 customers. On average we have 34,631 customers per day in our stores. If we keep up the momentum, we will have approximately 12,640,615 customers this year!
Have you joined the social networking craze online? I have and I'm totally addicted and my latest addiction is Twitter. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to the question: What are you doing?I was sending tweets and finding new people to follow, and I found NACS! Now you can follow convenience store news; www.twitter.com/nacsonline.
Monday, April 27, 2009
A messy office isn't a metaphor for anything. It's just a messy office. But it's also causing you to waste precious time that you could have spent more productively. Sifting through papers, searching for folders, avoiding files — all amounts to a huge time drain. Thanks to Microsoft.com, here are 5 tips for getting your office mess under control:
- Use Hanging Files
- Make a "to do" pile and actually do it.
- Use your garbage can
- Organize your contacts
- Use your computer
Thursday, April 23, 2009
How many Peanut Butter Eggs did the Easter Bunny leave you? Maybe the Easter Bunny shops at Clark's Pump-N-Shop in Winchester, KY! The store in Winchester sold 564 eggs this Easter, taking the top spot in Peanut Butter Egg sales. We sold 6,624 Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs this Easter!!! I hope you got one!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Did you know?
- Average price for a cup of coffee $1.38
- Average size of a cup of coffee 9 ounces
- Average number of cups consumed each day: 3.2 cups
- Percentage of US population that drinks coffee: 30%
- Time of day when the most coffee is consumed: morning!
Jackson BP leads the pack with 6,898 cups sold!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Since we learned from NACS Magazine there are 6 types of purchases, there are also things we can do to help our customer make their decision on what to purchase. We should have the right product, in the right place, in the right quantity, at the right time.
- Right Product: The right mix of products are important when space is limited. Nearly 90% of sales come from 10% of the items in our stores, adding too many new items can be a mistake. However, new items add excitement.
- Right Place: "Eye level is buy level" -This is the place were best selling items should be located and related impulse items should be placed nearby.
- Right Quantity: With limited shelf space and limited back stock storage, it is important (but difficult) to maintain the right quantity of merchandise.
- Right Time: The right time to have merchandise on the shelf is when the customer wants to buy it. The average exposure a section receives from a shopper is around 6 seconds, customers have no patience for hard to find items.
According to the latest issue of NACS Magazine, there are 6 kinds of convenience store purchases:
- Planned Purchase: Shopper makes a pre-planned decision, often with a shopping list, to buy specific items. For example, buying a tobacco product or a gallon of milk.
- Substitute Purchase: When a customer can't find a specific item on their list, or sees a better bargain a substitute purchase is made.
- Planned Specific Category: When a shopper plans to buy from a specific category, but does not have a specific product in mind.
- Delayed Remembrance: When a consumer is reminded of a need for something after seeing another product in the store.
- Add-on: This is a purchase made after a customer decides on a "magnet" item; for example the purchase of chips after selecting pop.
- Impulse: Seeing, smelling, or sampling an item in the store can create an impulse purchase.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Leslie Barker signed the Oil Company up to be in the drawing for Free Lunch Friday from Magic 97.9. Today was their lucky friday! J.B. Miller delivered lunch from the local Chick-fil-A and stuck around to eat. According to Magic's website, www.magic979.com, the grand prize includes lunch for 15 with Chick-n-Strips, Chick-fil-A sauce, coleslaw, fresh fruit, fudge nut brownies and sweet tea. That sounds really good!
Friday, April 3, 2009
1. Employee carries out trash alone - right before break or shift's end.
2. Employee's car parked out of sight, behind the store, or next to the dumpster.
3. Employee's purse, garment, or backpack in area of work.
4. Sack of merchandise next to checkout, next to front door, or outside back door.
5. Excessive damaged merchandise. Management allows employees to take it home.
6. Friends and/or family of employees hang out at store.
7. Employee never takes breaks.
I stopped by the new store opening this morning in Ironville. There was a lot of work going on! JET Tank Testing was there testing the under ground tanks, Phillips Inventory was doing a beginning physical count, Ohio Valley Wholesale was stocking and tagging the shelves, Coke and Pepsi were putting product in the store, and Mark McCarty was counting tobacco products and making sure everything was running smooth.In the picture, new Manager Sherry Blanton and Supervisor Justin Gibson were reviewing the new cigarette and tobacco price changes.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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