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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Eric H. Karp, ESQ., General Counsel To NCASEF The famous Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, who died nearly 2,500 years ago, is quoted as saying that change is the only constant in life. The internal paradox in this statement, using terms that are seemingly opposites, illustrates that change is an inevitable part of our personal and […]
By Sukhi Sandhu, NCASEF Chairman As 7-Eleven franchisees, we not only provide our customers with the products and services they need, but we also support the communities our stores serve. We do this at the store level, at the local FOA level, and at the national level via the National Coalition. I feel it is […]
By Joe Rossi, NCASEF Executive Vice Chair 7-Eleven franchisees are more than just store operators, we’re active members of our communities. In a sense, we are the often-overlooked good neighbors—we’re seen, but not many people realize just how much we contribute to the community. Sure, our stores are known as the place to go for […]
BY JOE ROSSI, NCASEF EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR One of my favorite things to do when my children were young was to coach baseball. I did it for over 17 years and soon will start up again with my grandson. I used the coaching opportunity not only to teach the young men on my team how […]
