Podcasts

CStore Decisions’ Executive Editor Erin Del Conte speaks with Steve Gu, CEO and co-founder of AiFi, to learn more about NanoStore and the future of autonomous checkout. AiFi designed and built the NanoStore — a fully automated, container-sized, checkout-free store that spans 160 square feet to showcase its platform. NanoStore is currently deployed with partners…

Michelle Arthur, loss prevention and tobacco buyer for the 103-store Montana-based Town Pump convenience store chain, joins C-Store Oracle and CStore Decisions Senior Editor Thomas Mulloy to discuss tobacco-free nicotine on demand products, merchandising and sales trends. Sponsored by Rogue. For more information, visit https://roguenicotine.com/. CStore Decisions · C-Store Oracle: Nicotine On Demand

CStore Decisions’ Executive Editor Erin Del Conte speaks with Tanner Krause, president of Des Moines, Iowa-based Kum & Go, which operates more than 400 convenience stores in 11 states. Following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the resulting outcry and protests across the country, a lot of businesses are asking questions, including…

CStore Decisions’ Executive Editor Erin Del Conte speaks with Evan Shiue, vice president of finance and strategy for Standard Cognition. Standard Cognition was one of the first tech startups in the autonomous checkout space. It operates a 1,100-square-foot cashier-less convenience store called Standard Store in the heart of San Francisco. That store is open to…

CStore Decisions Editor John Lofstock speaks with Mary Brookshire, who worked on the frontlines at Weigel’s convenience stores for 41 years. Mary retired on May 1 and shared some of her most memorable experiences from the past four decades. CStore Decisions · Weigels Podcast

Mt. Pleasant, S.C.-based, Refuel has grown from a five-store chain to a fleet of 84 convenience stores across three states in a little over one year. Mark Jordan, founder of Refuel, and Travis Smith, chief administrative officer and general counsel of Refuel, talk with CStore Decisions’ Executive Editor Erin Del Conte about the company’s latest…

CStore Decisions’ Executive Editor Erin Del Conte speaks with John Matthews, founder and president of Gray Cat Enterprises Inc., about what convenience store retailers can do now to prepare to best position themselves to thrive when the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Matthews talks about embracing the new world, which has been changed by the pandemic,…

Greg Ehrlich, president of Beck Suppliers, talks with CStore Decisions Editor John Lofstock about the company’s FriendShip convenience store chain and the current state of convenience retailing.

CStore Decisions Editor John Lofstock speaks with John Rodriguez, the chief operating officer for First Coast Energy/Daily’s convenience stores about its donation of 2,000 care packages to those in need during the COVID-19 crisis.

Shortly after the Humetrics/CStore Decisions annual HR Benchmarking Survey concluded, COVID-19 arrived creating a very different retail landscape. Mel Kleiman, founder of Humetrics, speaks with Erin Del Conte, executive editor of CStore Decisions, about the annual HR survey, tried-and-true human resources best practices and what c-store retailers can do from an HR standpoint to be…