The Hidden Profit Killer: How Out-of-Stocks Erode Your Travel Center’s Bottom Line
Out-of-stocks are silent profit killers, gnawing away at your bottom line in ways you might not even realize.
08-07-2024
Key Phases for Planning a Truck Stop or Travel Center New Build
Article created for the digital issue of the NATSO Foundation’s magazine A 2023 poll from NATSO members found that 63 percent are ‘likely’ to invest in a rebuild or remodel during the next […]
04-18-2024
10 Creative Solutions Travel Centers are Using to Overcome Inventory Challenges
Supply chain issues and labor challenges continue, making it harder for truckstop and travel plaza operators to ensure they have the right products in the right place at the right […]
10-28-2022
17 Solutions for Unproductive Inventory at Your Truckstop Due to COVID-19
Gather 17 actionable ways to limit the negative impact of your unproductive inventory.
07-07-2020
Manage Unproductive Inventory at Your Truckstop [Infographic]
Inevitably some products within your inventory are going to move faster than others, but rather than letting items grow cobwebs, there are steps you can take to limit the impact unproductive inventory has on your bottom line.
07-01-2017
NATSO Best Practices in Truckstop Merchandising: SKU Reduction [Video]
Every other Thursday, we share a video from Darren Schulte, NATSO’s vice president of membership, on one component of truckstop merchandising.
In today’s video, Schulte walks listeners through best practices in SKU reduction.
He encourages operators with limited space to count the number of SKUs of a particular product type. For example, during the video he counts the number of orange sodas and root beer offerings.
Do the same in your truckstop. Do you have too much of the same thing?
05-11-2017
Minimize Employee and Vendor Theft
Losses from theft—also called shrink—are a part of life for retailers. Shrink will never be completely eliminated, but truckstop and travel plaza operators can take steps to minimize it. “You […]
04-18-2013