2018

Cleanliness Sells
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /Having worked in the convenience store industry for more than 18 years, I not only spend a lot of time visiting c-stores, but I also always seem to live near one as well. When I first moved to Florida in 1999, I lived two ...
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2018

Acquisitions Are Expertise of 2018 CSNews Top Growth Chain Couche-Tard
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /By Convenience Store News Staff Report – 03/02/2018 LAVAL, Quebec — Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is no stranger to the annual Convenience Store News Top 20Growth Chains ranking. In the seven years that the report has ...
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2017

Increasing the Value of Your Business
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /I love business. I love being in business, starting businesses, running businesses, selling businesses and more than anything working with business owners. In fact, I love businesses so much that for many years I had a ...
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2017

Are Sale-Leasebacks Beneficial?
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /Recently a friend of mine sent me an email showing a beautiful new convenience store that was listed for sale and wanted to know why would a new store by a notable convenience chain appear listed for sale. Well, let me ...
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2017

Life is Always About Timing
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /Recently I was asked to give a presentation to a group of convenience store owners at a one of the State association conventions and the topic of the presentation was to share with the audience the state of the convenience ...
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2017

Unethical Negotiating Tactics
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /Let me teach you the unethical gambits that people can use to get you to sweeten the deal. Unless you’re so familiar with them that you spot them right away, you’ll find that you will make unnecessary concessions ...
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2017

Dumb Things You Do As You Get Older
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /They say as you get older you are supposed to get wiser and I believe in a lot of ways this is true. More than once I have said the only positive attribute I have discovered about getting older is that now I know that I ...
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2017

Looking Into the C-Store Crystal Ball
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /(This article first appeared in the March 9 electronic edition of Convenience Store News Daily. Click here for the PDF version as it appeared in the e-zine.) NATIONAL REPORT — Trying to predict the next seller or new buyer ...
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2017

C-Store M&A Market is Changing
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /(This article first appeared in the March 9 electronic edition of Convenience Store News. Click here for the PDF version as it appeared in the e-zine.) NATIONAL REPORT — In 2014, it was GPM Investments LLC and its ...
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2017

Why I Like the Convenience Store Business
Terry Monroe / 0 Comments /(This article first appeared in the February, 2017 print edition of Professional Carwashing & Detailing. Click here for the PDF version as it appeared in the magazine.) I must be the one of the luckiest people in the ...
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