What participants in and experts on the convenience retailing industry have to say about what is happening and what we can expect.
A Convenience Store by Any Other Name... C-stores are as varied as the consumers they serve; they can even be classified into sub-categories. Let’s look at a few. Convenience [...]
A Reunion at the Booth There’s no better place to take the pulse of the industry than the trade show floor. It’s hard to express how grateful SSCS is [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NACS proves again and again that B2B trade shows don't have to be boring. Some of the creative staff at SSCS have worked in professions other than the retail [...]
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