April 15th, 2009 | by Joe | published in General
I was reading an article this week regarding the sales crunch that many businesses put themselves under during the last quarter of the year as a means to make up for the first three quarters. Think that will business as usual for 2009? Last weekend, we watched as Phil and Tiger attempted to make up [...]
January 15th, 2009 | by Joe | published in General
Recent studies predict that c-store operators can expect to continue with moderate sales growth in 2009 with inside sales increasing anywhere from 3% to 5%. Sounds like a decent organic growth, right? However, given higher product and inventory carrying costs, this sales growth will equate to no real bottom line growth and, in fact, actually [...]