Archive for Items Categorized 'Avanti Magazine', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
November 1, 2022
By Joe Rossi, NCASEF Executive Vice Chair Many franchisees have been facing a significant labor shortage in recent years. This has had a major impact on our business, making it difficult for us to keep our stores running smoothly and efficiently. One of the main challenges we have encountered as a result of this labor […]
September 1, 2022
By Sukhi Sandhu, NCASEF Chairman There are many challenges that franchisees and the system are currently facing. Among them are the AR Gap, store safety, delivery issues, and rising operational expenses that include labor costs, inflation, and rising credit card swipe fees, and others. However, NCASEF is diligently working with SEI to address these issues […]
September 1, 2022
By Joe Rossi, NCASEF Executive Vice Chair The 30 plus years that I’ve spent at the corner of North Dearborn and Maple in Chicago as a 7-Eleven franchisee have been some of the greatest of my life. Since I first opened the doors of my store, I’ve been able to support my community through thick […]
September 1, 2022
By Eric H. Karp, Esq., General Counsel To NCASEF This assurance to investors in Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd., the publicly held parent company of 7-Eleven, Inc., appears as a small print footnote within the 23-page report entitled “Brief Summary for the Second Quarter of FY 2022 (Year Ending February 28, 2023).” The assurance […]
July 1, 2022
By Sukhi Sandhu, NCASEF Chairman I can’t begin my article without first thanking everyone—franchisees, our valued vendor partners, and our invited SEI guests—for making our 46th Annual Convention and Trade Show a wildly successful event! I am pleased to report that we had record attendance, and if the feedback I’ve received personally and have seen […]
July 1, 2022
By Joe Rossi, NCASEF Executive Vice Chair As we come out of the pandemic and work to resolve the issues created by COVID—supply chain, delivery, labor, etc.—we now face a new set of challenges, and top among them is the sharp increase of crime in our stores. The news is filled with headlines of rampant […]
July 1, 2022
By Eric H. Karp, Esq., General Counsel To NCASEF Over the last several years we have noticed some pronounced trends in the nature and profile of the 7-Eleven system. A trend is nothing more than the general direction in which something is developing or changing. We follow and analyze these trends because we hope and […]
May 1, 2022
BY SUKHI SANDHU, NCASEF CHAIRMAN The job of NCASEF Chairman comes with a lot of responsibilities. It involves such tasks as running the day-to-day administrative business of the organization, putting committees together and then working with those committees to achieve our goals, meeting with vendors, and lots of traveling to attend meetings with SEI and […]
May 1, 2022
BY JOE ROSSI, NCASEF EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR The Hundred Days of Summer are upon us, and this time around we have to be very diligent about keeping our store shelves full of the products our customers need and want. The pandemic has really done a number on us by creating a tsunami of supply chain […]
May 1, 2022
BY ERIC H. KARP, ESQ., GENERAL COUNSEL TO NCASEF Over the last two years, the most frequent subject matter of inquiries I get from individual franchisees or from FOA leaders on behalf of their members, relates to navigating the process for “giving back” a store. From a legal perspective, giving back a store involves termination […]