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The fastest growing publication in the convenience and petroleum retailing industry, NACS Magazine features thought-provoking and insightful articles that focus on trends, best practices, metrics and analysis for the decision makers and leaders of this dynamic industry.

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Take and Bake

 

Global Trends

 

 

Hot Foodservice
  

   

Looking Back 

Cover Story | Employee 51
The 51st employee at your organization could catapult you into a minefield of new health-care regulation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS                                                                                                               

Feature | Finding the Right Words
Slogans can help define your business — but do you really need one?

Web Preview | Feature | One Industry. One Show: the NACS Show
Get ready to take your stores to a whole new level.

Feature | Take-and-Bake Pizza Bubbles Up Slow
For operators with already established pizza programs, take-and-bake can expand the dinner daypart and boost incremental sales, but program development takes patience and time.

Web Preview | Feature | Fast. Forward. Profits.
Convenience retailers and suppliers gathered in New Orleans in May to attend educational workshops and hit the trade show in search of the latest and greatest in convenience and petroleum retailing technology at NACStech.

Ideas 2 Go | Are You Smarter Than a 3rd Grader?
Eight-year-olds know what’s hot in the general merchandise category.

Ideas 2 Go | The Costly Fear of Change
Legacy systems can hemorrhage time and money — and no one is the wiser.

Inside Washington | A Long History of Progress
After nearly 10 years, the campaign to reform credit and debit card swipe fees reached its climax in June 2010.

Capitol Punishment | Win or Lose
I am writing this column on June 17. The House and Sen­ate conference com­mittee dealing with financial services reform will be consider­ing the fate of the Durbin swipe fee amendment next week. Right now, nobody knows the outcome.

Global Trends | Down Convenience Street
A stroll along the streets of a booming metropolis in India reveals modern upgrades and traditional conveniences.

Category Close-Up | Hot Prepared Foodservice
Ready-to-eat hot foods have become more common — and more creative — at convenience stores.

PCI | A Day at the Breach
Brought to you by NACS EZ PCI.

Web Preview | Supplier Side | NACS Show ROI
If you want to get the most out of this year’s NACS Show — attract more buyers, build your brand and reap tremendous return from your booth investment — several marketing opportunities can help out.

A NACS from the Past | The Personal Touch
In 1995, “Ideas 2 Go” visited Family Express in Valparaiso, Indiana, and Sheetz in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

NACS CAFE | Food for Thought