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Throughout this process the fran- Chevron helps get their customers and chisee is the victim because he has to pay branded credit card holders to pump for gas shortages, cash shortages, and more gas at our stores, there should be a variances created by the system. The better solution. Those acquired stores should be fully wrong reports generintegrated into ated by gas registers “Throughout this process the the 7-Eleven create big shortages for franchisee is the victim because system so franfranchisees ranging he has to pay for gas shortages, chisees do not from $100 to $500, and have to go franchisees are obli- cash shortages, and variances through all these gated to pay for that. created by the system.” problems. We need to have the branded gas registers integrated into _______________ the 7-Eleven system so gas and car wash Many thanks to San Antonio Board sales can automatically be populated in Member Arundip Singh for his valuable the ISP. This is SEI’s responsibility be- input on this article! cause the major portion of gas sales inJAY SINGH come goes to corporate and franchisees CAN BE REACHED AT 702-249-3301 only make 1.5 cents. Although keeping OR JAYS@NCASEF.COM the brand names like Exxon and
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ditional products based on the current selections in a customer’s order. • Subway is exploring the plant-based protein trend with a meatless meatball sub, reported CNN Business. The sandwich chain will start selling the product, made with Beyond Meat's plantbased protein and available for a limited time, at 685 restaurants in the United States and Canada in September. • A new study from Oxford Economics claims up to 20 million manufacturing jobs around the world could be replaced by robots by 2030, reported BBC News. About 1.7 million manufacturing jobs have already been lost to robots since 2000, including 400,000 in Europe, 260,000 in the U.S., and 550,000 in China, it said. • Dollar General is turning to a new strategy to push its budget-conscious shoppers to spend more at stores and attract wealthier customers hunting for bargains by expanding into home continued on page 65