Industry Firsts Headline SOI Summit
The NACS SOI Summit the only convenience retail-specific benchmarking event goes live April 14 with exclusive data-driven content and insights.
March 11, 2021
ALEXANDRIA, Va. From key in-store categories to new shopper behaviors, NACS is putting the final touches on the NACS State of the Industry Summit (SOI Summit), a live and one-day-only digital experience to help retailers gain the data and performance benchmarks they need to advance strategies that win trips, grow baskets and enhance shopper loyalty.
Coming off a tumultuous 2020, now is the time for convenience and fuel retailing industry stakeholders to come together and evaluate how the industry performed during a chaotic and extraordinary year and discover breakthrough strategies to take convenience to the next level. Registration is under way for the SOI Summit, which will take place live, through an immersive virtual platform on April 14 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET.
Renee Covino, Convenience Store News
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Imagine overcoming data overload, collecting the most impactful data, analyzing it, and using the insights gained to monitor your operational performance and make impactful strategic changes to grow your bottom line. Sound impossible?
Two data-driven convenience store retailers Coen Markets Inc. and EG America are living this “data dream” and shared their experiences during the recent NACS Crack the Code Experience.
The first step is to admit you have a problem, according to Colin Dornish, senior director of operations for Coen Markets and one of the participants in the Making Cents of Your Data education session. For the Canonsburg, Pa.-based chain, which operates nearly 60 stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, its data deluge amounted to too many reports being distributed on a daily/weekly/monthly basis specifically, 15 reports a day, 105 reports per week, and more than 450 reports a month.