Convenience stores are an essential partner right now in communities
During this challenging time, as our communities experience near total shutdowns, local convenience stores remain a key resource for fuel, food, beverages, and other essential products for their neighbors and emergency workers.
Our industry’s workers interact with a broad array of other essential workers every day. Across the United States, the industry serves about 160 million customers per day – nearly half the population. By necessity, workers in our industry directly interact with customers inside and outside their stores every day. Those customers include health care workers of all stripes, first responders such as police and firefighters, and truckers, without whom food and vaccines could not get to the people who need them. Just like our industry’s workers depend upon all of these other essential workers to protect their well-being, every frontline worker needs our industry ensuring there is fuel and other goods to make sure they can get to and do their jobs.
The thousands of convenience stores across New England are prepared to do their part during this challenging national public health emergency by providing items you need in small settings, devoid of big crowds where we can get you in and out quickly. As we socially distance as much as possible, corner stores can help by keeping local neighborhoods supplied, and spreading out shoppers throughout the region.
Approximately 86% of Americans, rural or urban, live within ten minutes of a convenience store, and approximately 80% of those stores have fuel. These are the same stores open during snowstorms, hurricanes and late at night when everything else is closed, and they’re working hard to be prepared to stay open during this trial as well. As we all take precautions to ensure everyone’s safety, these neighborhood stores are vital to the health and well-being in many communities as we move through this pandemic together.
Members of the New England Convenience Store and Energy Marketers Association (NECSEMA) are preparing to the best of their ability to be there for communities. Our members are managing stock, sanitizing regularly and instructing employees on best practices, such as proper hand-washing, and wiping down counters, doors, shelves, and other “high-touch” areas with anti-bacterial wipes.
We are all in this together. Rest assured that your local convenience store owners are doing their part.
Our industry’s workers interact with a broad array of other essential workers every day. Across the United States, the industry serves about 160 million customers per day – nearly half the population. By necessity, workers in our industry directly interact with customers inside and outside their stores every day. Those customers include health care workers of all stripes, first responders such as police and firefighters, and truckers, without whom food and vaccines could not get to the people who need them. Just like our industry’s workers depend upon all of these other essential workers to protect their well-being, every frontline worker needs our industry ensuring there is fuel and other goods to make sure they can get to and do their jobs.
The thousands of convenience stores across New England are prepared to do their part during this challenging national public health emergency by providing items you need in small settings, devoid of big crowds where we can get you in and out quickly. As we socially distance as much as possible, corner stores can help by keeping local neighborhoods supplied, and spreading out shoppers throughout the region.
Approximately 86% of Americans, rural or urban, live within ten minutes of a convenience store, and approximately 80% of those stores have fuel. These are the same stores open during snowstorms, hurricanes and late at night when everything else is closed, and they’re working hard to be prepared to stay open during this trial as well. As we all take precautions to ensure everyone’s safety, these neighborhood stores are vital to the health and well-being in many communities as we move through this pandemic together.
Members of the New England Convenience Store and Energy Marketers Association (NECSEMA) are preparing to the best of their ability to be there for communities. Our members are managing stock, sanitizing regularly and instructing employees on best practices, such as proper hand-washing, and wiping down counters, doors, shelves, and other “high-touch” areas with anti-bacterial wipes.
We are all in this together. Rest assured that your local convenience store owners are doing their part.