Reading today’s cover story about how 7-Eleven and Alimentation Couche-Tard are using franchising as a total business model or a piece of a growth template, I continue to be struck by how the convenience-store channel has bucked what has happened in virtually every other major enterprise.
Consolidation.
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Paul Reuter is the founder and former CEO of Winsight Media. Reach him at paulreuter@thebateam.com.
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