Convenience stores are complex. One thing that I realized is that it was like running a grocery store but you were in charge of every department and responsible for them all as well. Our store had 1400+ (probably 2000+) items, office work and neighbors to serve. I really enjoyed talking and being involved with the neighborhood. Our store is surrounded by a great bunch of people. The biggest issue that I had was running the busiiness took a lot of time. Life was changing the "compatition" was changing (still is). Covid 19 happened... we are not going to get into that one to much. But there were many, many dynamics going on all the time. We had your typical conenience items (beer, cigarettes, cold drinks, candy, snacks, etc.), state lottery tickets, ATM and food service (22 seat restaurant then whole food plant based meal prep), so we learned many things along the way.

We also had other projects and businesses that we wanted to get into. Most of my focus was on operations and relating (talking) with everyone that came in because of my focus on talking with everyone I needed to find solutions that made it so that I could be interupted then continue without having to think about it to much. So much time can be lost sitting back down to the computer and having to find your place on the screen, just to be interupted again.  I built speadsheets and processes that made it so that I could be interupted as well as fill them in at random...it was awesome.

Structure should be in place to support the people running the business as well as those that own it. The systems that I built were intened for me to be scatter brained if needed and still effectively get the work done.