The Gray Cat Blog

A comprehensive collection of blogs designed to assist small business owners and multi-unit operators. 

Solving The Retail Investment Puzzle Feb 06, 2023

You own a bunch of stores all varying in size and age. Over the years, product assortments and sets have come and gone and you have ridden certain designs into the ground. Each of your stores needs...

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Conducting a Foodservice Focus Group Feb 06, 2023

Convenience store operators continue to plunge into foodservice with the hopes of stemming the tide of lower margins with high-margin foodservice offerings. While the degrees of foodservice can...

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Designing Your Customer-Driven Foodservice Operation Feb 06, 2023

Recently, I spoke at the Florida Petroleum Marketers Association on Developing a Winning Foodservice Strategy and the same holds true – foodservice is where it’s at in the...

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Know the Full Advantages of Foodservice Technology Feb 06, 2023

With every passing day, month and year, better for you foodservice options continue to infiltrate the convenience store industry.  Slowly but surely, the convenience store industry is...

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Targeting a Vertical Market Feb 06, 2023

Over my career I have worked with a number of organizations where making inroads into certain verticals (industries) was critical for our success.  Whether you target the banking, healthcare,...

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Gray Cat Makes Annual Donation Feb 03, 2023

In honor of “Emily the Cat” (the original gray cat from which the company name was created), Gray Cat Enterprises (along with new puppy, Bogey, in picture) makes its annual holiday...

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The Interim Executive Feb 03, 2023

The movie industry has been doing this for years.   With a screenplay in hand, a movie production house pulls together a team of production specialists including grips, gaffers, boom...

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Creating A Company Communications Plan Feb 03, 2023

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” – from the movie, Cool Hand Luke

Fire. Aim. Ready. If this is your communications...

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Embracing the New World Feb 03, 2023

Raise your hand if you had the word “pandemic” in your strategic plans – and like that, the world quickly changed. While convenience stores were spared total closure during the...

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Creating An Offering Memorandum Feb 03, 2023

There comes a time in every entrepreneur’s life when they wish to exit their business. At that time, one of the most essential documents a business owner should create is an offering...

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Project Management Feb 03, 2023

“The nice thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.”  — John Harvey-Jones

If...

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Store Design for the Retail Environment Feb 03, 2023

One of the most important, yet biggest challenges facing a retailer is creating a new store vision for your chain, while simultaneously running your day-to-day business.  There are only...

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