Convenience Bits

Convenience Bits is aimed at helping small and medium-sized retailers overcome the growing number of obstacles and challenges that characterize the retail industry in the new millennium. Through the use of not only educational articles but also investigative reports and focused ideas we’ll hopefully be able to provide you, our reader, with valuable content to help you make sound business decisions.

The information you will find here will come mostly from my day-to-day activities supervising convenience store locations but also from my 10 years of experience working in the retail and service world. Of course, a little help from other partners and bloggers comes handy from time to time in order to give you a broad and unbiased scope of the industry.

But who am I?

As a Supervisor for an oil distributing company my primary responsibility focuses on overlooking the operations of more than a dozen convenience store locations in northern Tennessee. At the present time our stations are branded under the BP and Exxon On The Run jobber program.

Even though my college educational background is centered on Marketing, being in this position at the present time will allow me to experience hands-on the ups and downs of operating a retail business.

Besides Convenience Bits, I’m also working on my Ph.D. as well as taking courses in digital photography and journalism. But can I share with you a secret? My real passion is airplanes; however, after 9-11 that industry has been… well, you know. Let’s put it “not too job-security friendly”. However, flying is still a hobby that I enjoy dearly.
Let’s start deciphering the vast universe of retail together and share our passion for the science of placing the right offering at the right time for the sake of keeping customers satisfied and coming back! You are more than welcomed to drop me a line anytime or follow me on twitter: twitter.com/blueclip