Microblog: Minnesota Employers-Holiday Stationstores

Holiday stations: A Minnesota-based company that's been around for over 80 years. Holiday has a total of 500 station stores in these states:

• Alaska
• Idaho
• Minnesota
• Michigan
• Montana
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Washington
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

 Career opportunities with Holiday Stationstores:  

• Manager
• Cashier/Customer service
• Food Service
• Telecommunications
• Network Coordinator
• Information Technology
• Accounting
• Marketing and Merchandising
• Building Maintenance
• Operations Engineer
• Human Resources

 

If you own a gas station franchise, your job will include:

• Being aware of and following state and federal regulations regarding your supply of gasoline
• Following local ordinances regarding your business
• Managing your employees: Scheduling, pay, supervising
• Sale of lottery tickets
• Accounting
• Stocking shelves, ordering stock
• Taking delivery of gasoline
• Customer service
• Security
• Buildling maintenance
• Groundskeeping: keeping the area neat, landscaping tended, snow shoveled in winter

A gas station can run about $500,000 to purchase and is frequently built on leased land.The profit made per gallon of gasoline is minimal, around 5c-7c per gallon. The larger profit or income for the gas station owner is made through sales of food and household supplies at the 'convenience store' part of the station: customers will frequently fill up, then go into the store for a donut, coffee, soft drink, snack, or something they're out of at home: milk, bread, eggs, etc. Another draw for customers is lottery tickets sold at a convenience store, as well as a cash machine, and if they go into the store for those, they may buy something else.


Owners will also often have a car wash, deli, and/or a coffee shop within the station store to attract more people and make more money.


An explanation as to how the price of gas is set:  http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/04/11/good-question-who-sets-the-price-at-the-pump/

 

You can look at job opportunities by zip code at the Holiday Stationstores website:
https://holidaystationstores.jobs.net/