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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 […]
BY SUKHI SANDHU, NCASEF CHAIRMAN I am deeply honored to serve as Chairman of the National Coalition. When I campaigned for the position, I announced my focus would be on three dynamics that will affect and involve all stakeholders in our 7-Eleven system: unity, communication and relationships, and financial health. Now, with the help of […]
By John Harp, CSP, ARM—Risk Engineering Consultant, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group What is workers’ compensation insurance? This insurance is protection for employees who are injured or become ill during the course of their job. It can be the result of an incident—like hurting their back lifting a case of water or being injured during […]
By Arnold J. Hauptman, Esq., General Counsel, UFOLINY Maybe it just seems that way, but it appears to me from phone calls received from franchisees, that 7-Eleven local management is issuing more LONs and Notices of Material Breach than in the past. Moreover, many (but not all) of these Notices involve petty deviations from the […]
Guest Column: John Harp, CSP, ARM—Risk Engineering Consultant, MSIG Insurance Group The COVID-19 pandemic may have one positive outcome—studies show that in 2020 people have a heightened awareness of basic safety, health, and wellness. This translates into a need to do the right things, including ensuring a safe walking, working, and shopping environment inside and […]
By Jay Singh, Chairman, NCASEF, President, San Antonio FOA These are tough times. The COVID-19 pandemic is testing our will and the resilience of all the people around us. It is a very painful test that continues to take away precious lives and freedoms, and paralyze our world as we know it. Since the beginning […]
By Michael Jorgensen, Executive Vice Chairman, NCASEF 7-Eleven’s system of promos and discounts certainly needs some rethinking. While researching my most recent audit using the new Inventory Walk Report, I reviewed the nonalcoholic beverage category by item. Drilling down to the by-item report I noticed that there was an abundance of discounts and markdowns. On […]
Eric H. Karp, Esq., General Counsel TO NCASEF In Chapter 2, I explored the implications of the $21 billion acquisition of Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s Speedway business. Among the issues we observed was that the interests and concerns of franchisees in regard to this transaction were invisible, not only to the parent company of your franchisor […]
