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Liquor, tobacco, processed food, and sugary snacks: this is the range of products that are far from healthy available in convenience stores. Yetthese stores have become people's resource for meeting daily needs in deprived neighborhoods in the United States. In her book, Convenience Stores as Social Spaces: Trust and Relations in Deprived Neighborhoods in the U.S., Cosima Werner explores the contested meanings of these stores and their function as social hubs in a social fabric where poverty, violence, and social neglect are part of peoples'daily life. Despite the strict security measures around the stores, language barriers, and cultural differences that make convenience stores appear as the antithesis of social spaces, trustful relationships are crucial for residents to access resources such as loans, food, drinks, or information to make ends meet. The concepts of trust and mistrust shed light on the fragility of trust within these communities. Through ethnographic research conducted in Chicago and Detroit, she reveals the unique ways in which these stores are viewed and utilized by residents.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich BWL - Handel und Distribution, Note: 1,7, FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management gemeinnützige GmbH, Frankfurt früher Fachhochschule, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Einkaufsmöglichkeiten für die deutschen Verbraucher sind mannigfaltig. Im Jahr 2012 haben hierzulande 366.905 Einzelhändler ihre Waren zum Kauf angeboten. Zehn Jahre zuvor waren es noch 418.122 Einzelhändler. Trotz des Rückgangs stehen den 80,5 Millionen deutschen Einwohnern weiterhin viele Möglichkeiten zur Verfügung, ihre Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen. Das Kaufverhalten und die Kundenwünsche haben sich gewandelt. Der Bedarf nach schnellem, mühelosem Essen und einfachem Einkaufen nimmt zu. Besonders aufstrebend sind derzeit Convenience Stores. Der demografische Wandel, die steigende Anzahl an Single-Haushalten und der Trend zu unregelmäßigen Tagesabläufen sind Ursachen, die dazu beitragen, dass bequemes und zeitsparendes Essen, sogenanntes Convenience Food, von den Konsumenten zunehmend nachgefragt wird. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es zu konstatieren, wie sich die Entwicklung der Convenience Stores in Deutschland darstellt, welche Faktoren dazu führen, dass dieses Geschäftsmodell erfolgreich ist, und wie sich Convenience Stores in Deutschland zukünftig entwickeln werden.

Supplement to 918-001. The case describes the inventive approaches to retail crime prevention that Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac's Convenience Stores, implemented between 2007 and 2017.

Faced with a persistent robbery problem at his convenience store company, Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac's of Central Canada, looked to standardize safety measures and devise a new way of preventing employee injury. But as a 32-year old with just one year on the job, Sportun had to tailor his message for change carefully to his colleagues, many of whom had worked for Mac's for decades. The case provides an overview of the convenience store industry and examines the challenges of crime prevention in a late-night retail environment.

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Summary: This book collects fifteen papers published in s Special Issue of Mathematics titled "Fuzzy Sets in Business Management, Finance, and Economics", which was published in 2021. These paper cover a wide range of different tools from Fuzzy Set Theory and applications in many areas of Business Management and other connected fields. Specifically, this book contains applications of such instruments as, among others, Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Neuro-Fuzzy Methods, the Forgotten Effects Algorithm, Expertons Theory, Fuzzy Markov Chains, Fuzzy Arithmetic, Decision Making with OWA Operators and Pythagorean Aggregation Operators, Fuzzy Pattern Recognition, and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets. The papers in this book tackle a wide variety of problems in areas such as strategic management, sustainable decisions by firms and public organisms, tourism management, accounting and auditing, macroeconomic modelling, the evaluation of public organizations and universities, and actuarial modelling. We hope that this book will be useful not only for business managers, public decision-makers, and researchers in the specific fields of business management, finance, and economics but also in the broader areas of soft mathematics in social sciences. Practitioners will find methods and ideas that could be fruitful in current management issues. Scholars will find novel developments that may inspire further applications in the social sciences.

A London graphic designer is suddenly forced to take over his South Asian family's convenience store in this “hugely enjoyable” novel (The Sunday Express). “Sathnam Sanghera's witty first novel chronicles three generations of a Punjabi Indian family in England. After his father dies, Arjan Banga, a graphic designer in London, returns to the dreary West Midlands to help run the family convenience store. The move causes tension with his white fiancée, Freya, whom his mother regards with passive-aggressive disapproval. Arjan must explain to customers that ‘as a Sikh I was not expected to marry my cousin or join Al Qaeda'and smile politely at their interpretations of his name (‘Mind if I call you Andy?'). Torn between familial duty and the freedom he enjoys in London, he gains unlikely clarity from his dimwitted friend Ranjit—a pot-smoking devotee of Steven Seagal movies, Xbox and hip-hop. Arjan's woes are comic, but the novel's depth is evident as it sheds light on the economic and political struggles of immigrants.” —The New York Times From an author whose work has been shortlisted for Costa and PEN Awards, this novel about a man trapped between British and Punjabi culture is “filled with details of the lives of Sikhs from the late'60s to the riots of 2011. The divisions within the Sikh population are poignantly and comically captured in the protests against the Wolverhampton Transport Department's ban on turbans” (Los Angeles Review of Books). “Sanghera's precise, hilarious rendition of voices and cultural details is the signal pleasure of a novel rich in humor, history, and heart.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Murata Sayaka è una delle più promettenti autrici giapponesi contemporanee, con uno stile fresco e un'intelligenza vivida che vi ricorderanno la Banana Yoshimoto di Kitchen.«Il romanzo di Murata è una svolta decisiva. La ragazza del convenience store è un exploit su una corda tesa. Uno dei migliori che ho visto realizzare da una scrittrice così giovane». John Freeman, Literary HubLa trentaseienne Furukura Keiko è single e molto introversa. È sempre stata una ragazza strana, ragion per cui ha deciso di provare a conformarsi alle aspettative della società e della famiglia abbandonando gli studi per lavorare in un konbini, un piccolo convenience store giapponese aperto 24/7. È qui che è impiegata da diciotto anni, con un contratto part-time. I suoi genitori e le poche amiche d'infanzia sono preoccupati per lei e sperano che presto o tardi possa sistemarsi e mettere su famiglia. Keiko, però, sembra incapace di adeguarsi alla norma, si è sempre comportata “in modo diverso”, per usare un eufemismo. Ed è con questo spirito anticonformista che paradossalmente affronta ogni cosa nell'universo circoscritto del konbini, al quale si consacra nella maniera più assoluta. Il suo posto nel mondo lo ha trovato proprio qui, dove tutto accade come se fosse scritto in un manuale ed è sufficiente attenersi alle regole per essere efficiente, la migliore commessa possibile. Finché non incontra Shiraha, un nuovo e strambo collega trentacinquenne in cerca di moglie, il quale è convinto che il mondo si sia fermato all'epoca preistorica… Per Keiko potrebbe trattarsi dell'occasione per lasciare il suo amato konbini e creare finalmente una famiglia, soddisfacendo le aspettative dei suoi cari? O il mondo del konbini, con le sue precisissime regole e il suo singolare valore simbolico, avrà la meglio?

Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award Longlisted for the Believer Book Award Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation A Los Angeles Times Bestseller The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits into the rigidity of its work culture only too well. The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction—many are laid out line by line in the store's manual—and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a “normal” person excellently, more or less. Managers come and go, but Keiko stays at the store for eighteen years. It's almost hard to tell where the store ends and she begins. Keiko is very happy, but the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, increasingly pressure her to find a husband, and to start a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action… A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.

Convenience im Einzelhandel ist in aller Munde. Die Autoren dieser Studie beschäftigen sich mit dem Convenience Store - eine Handelsform, die heute verschiedene andere Handelsformen ergänzt, Lebensmitteleinzelhandel, Gastronomie und Out-of-Home-Markt zusammenführt und die höchstmögliche Bequemlichkeit für den Kunden bzw. die Kundin als Alleinstellungsmerkmal implementiert hat. Für den Convenience Store gibt es keinen einheitlichen Prototyp, da die Anforderungen der Kunden und Kundinnen von Standort zu Standort variieren. Konzerne wie Einzelunternehmer und –unternehmerinnen stehen in ihren Geschäftskonzepten vor der Herausforderung, die vier „Bausteine“ des Convenience Stores, Standort, Sortiment, Atmosphäre und Zeit so zu justieren, dass möglichst viele Probleme der Kundschaft gleichzeitig gelöst werden können. Nicht nur begrenzte Ladenöffnungszeiten in verschiedenen Ländern, sondern auch sich stets verändernde Trends und Zeitgeisterscheinungen, wie die Bevorzugung von aus der Region stammenden Lebensmitteln oder die Zunahme von Einpersonenhaushalten, bilden die Rahmenbedingungen in deren Gefüge sich das „ideale“ Convenience Store-Konzept einfügen muss. In dieser Studie bietet die theoretische Untersuchung der Handelsform Convenience Store, mit all ihren einflussnehmenden Faktoren, die Grundlage für die selbstständige Erstellung von Ladenkonzepten für einen bestimmten Standort. Bei der Ideengenerierung wird besonderer Wert auf Kreativitätsmethoden gelegt, die von den Autoren in Arbeitsgruppen praktiziert und in der Studie dokumentiert werden. Die Beschreibung der Vorgehensweise und der tatsächlichen Durchführung bis hin zum fertigen Konzept, geben dem Leser oder der Leserin einen Leitfaden an die Hand, mit welchem ein potenzielles Ladenkonzept erstellt werden kann.

Winner of Best New Play and the Patron's Pick Award at Toronto's Fringe Festival, Kim's Convenience is the critically acclaimed, wildly popular, smash-hit debut by celebrated actor, playwright, and poet Ins Choi. Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim's Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood. There, he spends his time serving an eclectic array of customers, catching petty thieves, and helpfully keeping the police apprised of illegally parked Japanese cars. As the neighbourhood quickly gentrifies, Mr. Kim is offered a generous sum of money to sell — enough to allow him and his wife to finally retire. But Kim's Convenience is more than just his livelihood — it is his legacy. As Mr. Kim tries desperately, and hilariously, to convince his daughter Janet, a budding photographer, to take over the store, his wife sneaks out to meet their estranged son Jung, who has not seen or spoken to his father in sixteen years and who has now become a father himself. Wholly original, hysterically funny, and deeply moving, Kim's Convenience tells the story of one Korean family struggling to face the future amidst the bitter memories of their past. This edition includes an eight-page black-and-white photo insert of the original Fringe production and the Soulpepper production.

Wawa, a family business with a history in dairy and manufacturing, expanded into retail in 1964, offering a friendly, personal alternative to supermarkets. Since then, the convenience store grew into a well-known company that competes against the biggest industry players in the world in three areas -- fuel, convenience, and food -- all while maintaining their personal approach and small business mentality. Now, almost 50 years later, Wawa has opened its first store in Florida and has begun to play on the national field. How did it happen? What are the reasons for their success? Why have they been able to go up against the big guys with nothing more than homegrown talent? With a mixture of personal history and business advice, Howard Stoeckel discusses the last 50 years of Wawa's growth, development, and expansion. It's the story of how a small company with a funny name made a big difference, and all it took was a little goose sense.

This book discusses continuous improvement strategies of Japanese convenience store operators. The study highlights the efforts of companies operating under lean management systems to identify new, dynamic, firm-specific capabilities in highly competitive markets.

Can 7-Eleven United States replicate the successful experience of 7-Eleven Japan in selling fresh foods through convenience stores? Describes the Japanese system and shows the steps the company is taking to try to achieve the same success in the United States.

'A too-real fictional account of a teacher and mother who is a terminal cancer patient and has stopped all treatment but who decides to fight back when an ex-student Buddy Baker threatens her life'--Provided by publisher.

National Convenience Stores seeks to emerge from Chapter 11. Central to the nature of the reorganization plan is the company's determining enterprise value. The various constituencies (secured debt, unsecured debt, etc.) will seek to find an enterprise value that coincides with their interest. The case provides detailed projection data to permit full utilization of the relevant techniques.

The Klondike bar is America's favorite ice cream novelty. This book traces its history and the rise and fall of its creator company, Isaly's Dairy, which evolved from one milk wagon to a dozen plants that supplied its 400 delis and dairies by the 1950s.