At Our Best When Things are Worst
At Our Best When Things are Worst It's an unusual holiday season, still there's much to be grateful for. In the 1984 John Carpenter film, Starman, the alien in [...]
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12, 2020
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08, 2020
The Irreplaceable Joy of Sharing Success
The Irreplaceable Joy of Sharing Success Bearing witness to dealer accomplishment is what SSCS misses most about staying at home. These are unusual times for the convenience store industry. [...]
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07, 2020
The Convenience Chain that Wasn’t there
Third party delivery companies are poised to compete in the c-store space through the creation of "dark" or "stealth" networks. The Convenience Store that Wasn't There Layering convenience on [...]
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05, 2020
A Quiet Revolution
A Quiet Revolution COVID-19 is changing the way convenience stores do business. Will these provisional changes prove permanent? Necessity fuels innovation, and in the shadow of COVID-19, that's exactly [...]
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04, 2020
There When We Need Them
U.S. convenience stores are embracing their role as essential services. "Darwin said it clearly. The species that surviveare usually not the smartest or the strongest,but the ones most responsive to [...]
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03, 2020
Business as (un)Usual
Business as (un)Usual Providing c-store customers uninterrupted access to technology during this critical time is SSCS’s sole and determined focus. These are certainly interesting times. In a matter of [...]
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03, 2020
I Want to Hold Your HandHeld
I Want to Hold Your Handheld The small but mighty handheld device plays an outsized role in successful inventory management. Choose wisely. Leading convenience store owners and managers openly [...]
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02, 2020
Scratching Out a Healthy Profit
Scratching Out a Healthy Profit Lottery tickets sustain a recurring customer base, but possess notoriously thin margins. Don't worry. Automation can help. Returning customers are always a convenience store [...]
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12, 2019
The “Service” in Service Station
The "Service" in Service Station That "Service" is embedded in the name of Service Station Computer Systems is no accident. A clue to just how long SSCS has been [...]
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11, 2019
Hawaii? Fine, Thank You!*
Hawaii? Fine, Thank You! Explore the nooks and crannies of the Big Island and you'll find gas stations and more. Some of the SSCS creative staff just returned from [...]
