Vision Group Network Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Vision Group Network celebrates its fifth anniversary fostering innovation and collaboration within the Convenience and Mobility sectors.
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Standing Out in a Sea of Sameness
Convenience retailers are rethinking growth beyond fuel, with leaders focused on foodservice, private label, and self-service technology as ways to build stronger customer relationships. GCVG September Vision Report highlights how modular store formats, local marketing, and disciplined category strategy strengthen brand credibility, while charging infrastructure and non-fuel services point toward where future margin growth will come from.
Can AI Help Small Operators? How Favtrip Creates AI Solutions One Problem at a Time
The September SOVG Vision Report explores how a small operator built practical AI tools to catch billing errors, streamline invoice reconciliation, spot trending products, and improve hiring, while offering a clear roadmap for other operators to start small, stay disciplined, and free up time for growth.
Strait Talk: The Outlook for the Global Energy Market
The Outlook for the Global Energy Market The September CLVG Vision Report examines a global energy market reshaped by refining capacity losses rather than crude oversupply. Analysts weigh hurricane risk against record refinery run rates, an uncertain Strait of Hormuz, and unpredictable Chinese demand, while offering strategies for retailers to diversify fuel supply and prepare for volatility.
Latest VGN Lens Articles
Strait Shot – How Does Hormuz Affect Global Fuel Supply?
Roy Strasburger takes a closer look at how the closure of a key oil shipping route and shrinking global refining capacity are combining to reshape fuel supply. While the shipping chokepoint grabs headlines, losses in refining tied to regional conflicts, aging plants, and new sanctions are cutting deeper into refined product availability, leaving little room to absorb future disruptions even if shipping routes fully reopen.
Engaging AI
Myra Kressner shares four AI takeaways from the McLane Engage conference, exploring how retailers can move from automation to anticipation, protect critical thinking, amplify creativity, and measure real value instead of simply "using AI."
A Local Problem, and a Local Answer
Illegal tobacco sales often stay hidden in store data until losses are already severe. Operators can build an expected sales benchmark from existing POS data to catch illicit trade intrusion early, then turn that customer loss into a foodservice growth opportunity.
