The following has been re-posted from Convenience Store Decisions. The original article can be found here. It’s almost back to school time for many young people including students who had an internship experience this summer. Recently I’ve seen several posts on LinkedIn reveling the work interns did for the companies...
Click & Mortar
The following has been re-posted from C-Store Decisions. The original article can be found here. Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition shows brick-and-mortar and online retailing can help strengthen each other when brought together. By Ed Collupy With what seems like the click of the mouse, Amazon has made its entry into...
Moving Forward With Payment Technology
The following has been re-posted from C-Store Decisions. The original article can be found here. As EMV implementation wraps up, retailers must consider where mobile payment solutions are headed. By Ed Collupy The baseball season is in full swing and I’m reminded as I continue to think about card payments...
EMV Hopes – An Implementation Update
The following has been re-posted from C-Store Decisions. The original article can be found here. As retailers struggle with compliance, chargebacks from the liability shift have been larger than anyone in the industry anticipated. By Ed Collupy The implementation of EMV (Europay, Mastercard and Visa) chip card acceptance should be...
EMV: Stalled at the Pump
The convenience and fuel retailing industry is buzzing about the announcements from VISA, Mastercard, and American Express that they will delay most of the liability shift for automated fuel dispenser (AFD EMV chip card transactions by 3 years. Convenience store operators and gasoline retailers were preparing to meet the October...
How Ready Are They?
The following article, from Digital Transactions, contains contributions from Terry Mahoney, Partner at W. Capra Consulting Group: “Now that merchants have had their EMV D-Day, it’s the turn of ATM owners and petroleum marketers. The compliance picture isn’t pretty. Here’s why, and what ATM deployers, C-stores, and others can do...
Follow Your Own Technical Compass
The following article has been reposted from C-Store Decisions. No matter where you choose to operate your c-store chain, technological opportunities exist throughout the U.S. By Ed Collupy Compasses have been sailors’ companions for years helping them navigate unfamiliar waters. This election year we’ve certainly heard of the moral compass...
Doing More With What You Have
Today’s convenience stores need to keep up with new technology solutions and the ever growing demands on retailers to be nimble and mobile. Add to that the ever changing staffing landscape for most C-Stores towards a growing millennial workforce, we need to always be innovative in what we offer our...
Adopters and Adapters
Loyalty, I noticed as the miles on my odometer increased, takes on many forms. The following is re-posted from Convenience Store News. My recent business travels took me by my city neighborhood grammar school. It reminded me of the many yearly assignments to write a story about my summer...
EMV – A Journey to Learn From
The C-Store Industry Isn’t the Only One Struggling to Rollout EMV. The following is re-posted from Convenience Store News. Clearly there are more places where your EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa)chip card is being accepted, but there is still quite a road to travel before it is fully implemented. Convenience...
Competing in the Technological Age of Loyalty
Your program should be a long-term decision, not a short-term fix. The following is re-posted from Convenience Store News. Can consumers be loyal to your company or brand anymore? What incentives persuade a millennial to be loyal to your company? Do loyalty programs actually increase sales, or is the end...
W. Capra Launches Rubix Services
W. Capra launches Rubix Services to expand its commitment to the Petroleum C-Store Industry W. Capra Consulting Group, the leading retail technology, payments and security consultancy to the Petroleum Convenience Store industry, is broadening its commitment to the industry by launching Rubix Services. Rubix is a payment processing and technology...
