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Gas station service attendants are essential for running a successful gas station and convenience store.Proper training, guidance, and understanding of the position can lead to a seamless operation.

Opening a new store is exciting, but there’s a lot of work to do before your grand opening.

The Holiday season often times means spending time with family, exchanging gifts, and enjoying delicious meals with loved ones. However, it’s also the perfect time to focus on gratitude and giving. Choosing to focus on doing good during this hectic time of year is a wonderful tradition to start for yourself, your family, or your company.


This year the CStorePro team raised $600 to purchase toys for the Fort Bend County Program, Casa de Esperanza's services for children. Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos strives to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect for at-risk infants, children and their families by providing comprehensive residential and family support programs that transform people and communities.

They will be distributing the toys to foster children they have in-house, and the children they feel that need them, that have worked with them throughout the years. The CStorePro team would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this effort, and a huge thank you to the employees at Fort Bend County Program for their committed work. Wishing all Happy Holidays and cheers to the New Year! 

If you'd like to learn more about how you can help, please visit Fort Bend County Program.

We are proud to inform our customers that we have been working with Greater Houston Retailers Association (GHRA) to help automate the roll out of their Hurricane Harvey Relief Campaign.  Starting today, GHRA stores' customers will be able to make a donation barcodes for $1, $5, $10 and $20  by 'purchasing' donation barcodes.  All proceeds from these purchases would be donated by GHRA towards relief efforts.

When perusing various snack choices at their local convenience store, consumers often turn their eyes upon packaged meat products. While chips and candy have their place, many customers turn to jerky or sausages over sugar-loaded treats for their protein packed nature.

 

Other consumers choose meat snacks because they’re simply delicious! In any case, jerky is a major snack product for gas stations and c-stores alike and it’s one you should capitalize on.

Self-serve pizza sales are on the rise. This is good news for convenience store owners! While offering a selection of ready-made pizza does take a little more prep work and space, the profitability is unparalleled.

Wow, it’s August already! It seems like only yesterday we were writing about how to manage inventory for the summer. In actuality, that article appeared on May 5th, a whole three months ago. In this business, time flies. As the dog days of summer are upon us, it isn’t too early to start taking a look at the future, and preparing your store for autumn.

Here’s a little insider information: lottery sales are a big revenue generator for c-stores and gas stations alike. Shocking, right? For most stores, lottery sales represent between 10%-15% of their total sales. That’s a pretty big number, considering the average commission on winning tickets is around 6%.

For some stores, that percentage of sales is even higher. Which is why there’s good news on the horizon for lottery retailers, especially in the Big Apple.

They say “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.” That strategy has served McDonald’s for a long time. But as the world changes, and customer demands evolve; even the fast food giant has to sit up and take notice. To that end, McDonald’s is modernizing its service.

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