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5/25 Chicago, IL – NRC Realty
Advisors, LLC (NRC), formerly known as National Real Estate Clearinghouse, announced
today that it has been retained by Sunoco, Inc. (R&M) to coordinate the sale of
approximately 48 retail outlets in the Southeast market. The Southeast stores,
44 fee and 4 leased, are located in the Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa,
Florida areas, and a few sites are located in Georgia, Tennessee, and North and South
Carolina. A majority of the outlets also include convenience store offerings. The stores
will be sold through a sealed bid sale in a "buy one, some or all" format with
bids due on Friday, June 25, 2004. A complete list will be available online at www.nrc.com/405, or by calling 800-747-3342 extension
405. NRC will conduct a How-To-Bid Seminarä on June 8 in
Orlando, FL at the Airport Marriott Hotel. Registration for the seminar begins at 9:30am
sharp. All interested parties are encouraged to attend to learn more about the sale. The
stores are being offered with the intention that Sunoco will continue to supply gasoline
through long-term supply agreements with Sunoco distributors. NRC is currently preparing a
color sales brochure and individual property specific packages (PSP) for each property,
which contain store level information and bidding terms of sale. Packets are $35 for a
hard copy and $25 for a CD-ROM. Individual bid packages for each store should be ready by
late May. Interested buyers may visit the NRC website at www.nrc.com or call NRC for information.at 800-747-3342.
NRC recently completed selling 78 Sunoco Sites in the Midwest.
5/25 C-Store and Gas Station
owners who would like to profit from the great revenue stream of a carwash but do not want
to put up a large amount of cash now have a great solution. Qlease.com new Car Wash
Finance Program for C-Stores and Gas Stations can help make the addition of a Car Wash pay
for itself. Using a financial product like an equipment lease for the addition of a Car
Wash can allow the revenue generated from the usage of the car wash pay for the monthly
payments. With an equipment lease important revenue generating equipment like a car wash
can be added with sometime little or no money out of pocket. The utilization of financing
is not only a great way to add equipment but can quicken the return on investment seen by
business owners. Getting money for a Car Wash can be a difficult process. Using the
traditional methods of local banks or the SBA requires assembling a great deal of
information and a lot of "Red Tape". Qlease.com will approve some purchases on
an "application only" basis, which means only a single credit application needs
to be filled out. This can even be done using the "online application" available
on the Qlease.com website. This quick and easy approach to business capital is gaining in
popularity; more and more C-Store and Gas Station owners are choosing to use Qlease.com to
provide financing for their business. Qlease.com is a full service commercial equipment
leasing and finance company that provides loans and equipment leases to businesses adding
almost any type of equipment. Qlease.com has the ability to approve "A, B &
C" Credits as well as Start-up Businesses. Qlease.com has aggressive rates for every
deal and getting an approval on an equipment lease can be as easy as filling out the
online application. Visit http://www.Qlease.com/?equipment-leasing
for more information or call 480-563-4688.
5/14 Salt Lake City, UT - Mindshare
Technologies announces the release of CONNECTTM version 3.5, an automated
system that encourages customers to provide immediate feedback to service establishments
such as c-stores, restaurants, and retail stores. Shortly after their service experience,
customers respond to a short survey using their touch-tone telephone or web interface.
Reports are updated immediately for client management to incorporate customer insights
directly into their operations. Customers listen to recorded voice prompts and answer by
pressing the appropriate keys, and by leaving voice recordings. To get customers to
participate, companies generally offer a discount for a future visit. Because the surveys
are created and stored using Internet technology, the program that can be operational
within hours - with surveys written and ready for customer feedback. As soon as each
customer finishes a survey, a complete set of analytical reports are updated, and
immediately retrievable directly from the Internet, via e-mail, or by fax. There is no
hardware for companies to install and no software to learn. Because Mindshare Connect was
purpose-built, specifically for the service it provides, it is significantly more flexible
and less expensive than other means of collecting similar information, such as traditional
IVRs (Interactive Voice Response.) Mindshare boasts it can deliver over 100 actual
customer surveys for the price of about 2 mystery shops. The customer completes the survey
while the service experience is fresh on their mind, and a large enough volume of surveys
are provided to make the results actionable right down to the level of the associate who
delivered the service. Clients are learning exactly what their customers think within
hours of the visit, without intruding on the customer’s sense of privacy. For more information, call (800)634-5407 or visit www.mshare.net.
5/13 Arlington, Texas - The Pinnacle
Corporation announced today that it will introduce its new Auditor home-office
application at NACStech next week. Auditor is a new retail accounting manager, and the
latest in Pinnacle's suite of web-based products built on its Symphony Business Platform. With
Auditor, data that does not pass user-defined exception rules will not be marked as
audited. Retailers can customize their own sets of rules to validate data related to sales
and cash accountability, fuel inventory accountability, and cost and retail inventory
accountability. Any exceptions to the rules are displayed and can be easily checked. Once
data is audited, users can use a reporting system to provide various types of reports.
Browser-based Auditor can be seamlessly integrated with Pinnacle's Fuel Smart to update
fuel sales, inventory and delivery information as well as Great Plains Dynamics to
generate accounts payable and general ledger entries. Pinnacle will demo Auditor at booth
#115 NACStech.
5/6 Arlington, Texas - The Pinnacle
Corporation announced today that its Palm point-of-sale software supports the new NACS
payment systems network hosted on the Concord/Atlanta platform. The NACS program provides
convenience retailers with a processing alternative for store-level credit transactions.
Palm version 7.5 is Pinnacle's latest release of its POS application, an application
specifically designed for the convenience store and petroleum industries, and a winner of
Microsoft's RAD Award. Palm is a 32-bit in-store point-of-sale system that runs under the
Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. Palm utilizes scanning and touch screen
technology, eliminating the need for an external keyboard. Its intuitive graphical user
interface makes it extremely easy to learn, reducing training time significantly. Palm is
also compatible with most fuel dispensing equipment and dispenser card readers. On the
Concord/Atlanta network, Pinnacle's Palm POS currently supports major bank cards, fleet
cards and debit cards. In the near future, it will support additional features such as
electronic benefits transfer, interfaced checks, stored value cards, secure TCP/IP
connections, and other features including security enhancements. More information about
Pinnacle and its automation solutions may be found on the Internet at www.pinncorp.com.
5/6 Arlington, Texas - The Pinnacle
Corporation announced today that Flash Foods will beta test Loyalink, Pinnacle's new
web-based loyalty program designed specifically for convenience retailers. Pinnacle will
introduce Loyalink to the industry at the upcoming NACStech show in Dallas May 17th
through 19th. Using Loyalink, a home-office based marketing group can build customized
loyalty programs and deploy them easily across stores or groups of stores. Loyalink tracks
and distributes promotions, calculates and triggers loyalty rewards in real-time, and
allows customers to participate in programs deployed across the entire retail enterprise
rather than a single store. Loyalink also manages the collection of transaction data from
Pinnacle's Palm POS to deliver loyalty rewards right at the point of sale, and to provide
the business analytics required to measure and improve promotion construction. Flash Foods
is headquartered in Waycross, Georgia. It has over 160 convenience stores located
throughout Georgia and North Florida.
5/6 Arlington, Texas - The Pinnacle
Corporation announced today the release of its Oasis Manager Workstation version 2.5.
The new release enhances a variety of core product features, and consolidates various
interim and point releases to Pinnacle's award-winning Windows-based back office
application. The release contains all changes since the release of version 2.0, including
important updates and enhancements to many of its core applications including Transport
Server, Magic Word and Report Dictionary.Well-known in the industry for its adaptability
to clients' needs, Oasis MWS allows complete flexibility for automating daily reports,
timekeeping, labor scheduling, and inventory and fuel inventory control. It uses true
32-bit processing, and runs under the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems,
utilizing the intuitive user interface of Windows, its multi-tasking capability, and its
graphical user interface. Current Oasis users can contact a Pinnacle client services
representative at 1-800-775-8501(ext. 801) for upgrade information. For more information
about Oasis MWS version 2.5, or any other Pinnacle product or service, contact our Sales
Department at 1-800-366-1173.
4/22 SAN DIEGO, CA –
Although most customers remain loyal patrons when their most recent experience with
frontline employees were good ones, many companies have relied primarily on marketing
gimmicks and low prices to bring customers back. Research conclusively shows that customer
loyalty is the primary driver of profitability but businesses have not done a good job of
driving customer loyalty through their employees. Management has had to rely on gut
instinct, limited observations and limited customer feedback to make important business
decisions - until now. San Diego-based Qualistics, Inc., recently introduced a Web-hosted
software solution designed to help companies improve customer loyalty and increase
profitability through the performance of their people. The solution is called Q
Intelligence and it enables large companies to monitor employee performance and customer
satisfaction -- through the eyes of their customers. It delivers highly-specific and
actionable business intelligence to the right people at the right times across their
organizations so they can proactively make positive changes. With Q Intelligence you can
effectively recover dissatisfied customers, track performance trends on every
organizational level down to individual employees, determine your competitive advantages
and disadvantages of your products and services, and focus on the service issues that have
the greatest impact on profitability. For additional information about the Qualistics
solution, please call (858) 404-7050 or visit online at www.qualistics.com.
