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Mitch Morrison

Vice President of Retailer Relations...

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Mitch Morrison

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Opportunities in a Recession

Twenty-year lows in consumer confidence, more than a half-million jobs lost in November—the highest in more than three decades—and a nation mired in recession. The good news? The convenie...

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Refining Cracks and Credit

At first glance, the news was stunning: Ogden, Utah-based Flying J Inc., one of the nation’s 20 largest private companies, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. But at its root? The collap...

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Value Proposition

C-stores risk lost sales by ignoring consumers' financial worries.

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Who Needs You?

“How relevant are you?” That was the question I asked a senior executive of a very big chain. “I don’t think that’s the question you really mean,” he replied. Not...

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Tobacco: Something’s in the Air

“The world is truly shifting on its axis, and the implications for convenience retailing are profound. Our future over the next decade will be defined by severe headwinds and incredible tailwind...

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Getting Burned

With SCHIP's passage, the world changes for tobacco makers, wholesalers and retailers.

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Are We Losing Our Impulse?

The Rocky Mountain News, then the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, then The Ann Arbor News: all closed or closing. On March 27, The Christian Science Monitor published its last daily run, transitioning to ...

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Knowing Pete Sodini

“We’re like the Statue of Liberty,” Pete Sodini told me. “Send me your weak and suffering, and we’ll buy you.” The first time I met Pete was in fall 1998. Then, he...

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Artist of the Deal

How Pete Sodini turned The Pantry into a retail powerhouse.

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Are You Networking?

“Down 13 pounds with another weigh in Thurs. Interesting to see how we did while on vacation,” the Twitterer tweets. “I’m moving on, trying something new. Thank y’all wh...

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No Mystery in Success

When the checkout line serpentines around the coffee bar, what do you do? When the toilet paper and hand towels run low in the restroom, who makes sure they don’t go empty? When the pots of co...

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The Tobacco Dilemma

Not so long ago tobacco companies would come together, agree on a strategy and quash any undesirable bill in Congress or at the state level. Like the National Rifle Association and National Beer Whol...

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