At Your Convenience

In the latest episode of CSP's "At Your Convenience" podcast, Vice President of Content Strategy Abbey Lewis sits down with Marc Walkin, Head of Marketing at Qsic. Walkin makes a compelling case for why convenience stores represent an ideal environment for strategic audio: "What makes c-stores so unique is first, they're highly impulse-driven relative to other channels," Walkin explains. "Any audience that is more impulse-driven is obviously more susceptible to ads that could change behavior."

Sandie Deas Ray, Nadine Lim and Elsa Storts are three consumer-packaged goods (CPG) leaders who are all at different stages of their careers. They’re also all part of the same power team, a group of industry members who attended CSP’s Convenience-Store Women’s (CSW) Event [https://www.cspdailynews.com/company-news/returning-attendees-share-importance-c-store-women-mission] and who meet throughout the year to solve challenges that women in the workplace face.  In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” [https://www.cspdailynews.com/csp-podcast] Lim, e-commerce manager at Temple, Texas-based McLane Co. Inc.; Deas Ray, vice president of foodservice sales and marketing at Frisco, Texas-based Ruiz Foods Inc.; and Storts, trade show and event manager for Austin, Texas-based BeatBox Beverages, get candid about mentorship.

In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Chuck Ulie talks with Liza Salaria [https://www.cspdailynews.com/beverages/navigating-supplier-customer-relationships-among-cold-vault-forum-big-ideas], merchandising and foodservice practice lead at Chicago-based W. Capra, from CSP’s C-Store Foodservice Forum [https://www.cspdailynews.com/foodservice/consumers-increasingly-concerned-about-what-they-eat-convenience-store-expert] in Schaumburg, Illinois, in June. Salaria discusses correcting foodservice margin leakage, touching on gross margins, open rings, known loss, unknown loss, supplies and more.

In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Diane Adam talks with Mitch Morrison [https://www.cspdailynews.com/profile/mitch-morrison], vice president of retailer relations at Informa Connect, about the latest news and trends in the tobacco category. The two talk about staff changes at the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), how artificial intelligence might speed up the agency's premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) review process, growing illicit vape sales and more.

In this episode of “At Your Convenience,” CSP Editor Rachel Gignac talks to Neha Nayyar, senior director of loyalty, personalization and shopper marketing at 7-Eleven, and Mario Mijares, vice president of marketing, loyalty and monetization platforms at the Irving, Texas-based chain. The conversation about 7-Eleven’s retail media network [https://www.cspdailynews.com/technologyservices/7-eleven-expanding-gulp-radio] took place in April at CSP’s Retail Media Network Forum [https://www.cspdailynews.com/technologyservices/csps-second-annual-retail-media-network-forum-kicks-monday] in Dallas. Nayyar and Mijares discuss the convenience-store chain's ad channels, retail media partnerships, personalization and more.