NACS Show 2024
  • Las Vegas Convention Center
  • Conference: October 7-10, 2024
  • Expo: October 8-10, 2024
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Robert Wade

Category and Supply Chain Manager
ExtraMile Convenience Stores LLC

Robert is the Category Manager for Tobacco at Extramile Convenience Stores LLC.  He also manages their wholesale supplier relationship in their nearly 1,100 stores in 13 states.  Robert has been with EMCS for 6 years in multiple roles, and has been overseeing Tobacco now for more than two years.  Prior to joining EMCS Robert has worked for other convenince retailers as well as roles with Bank of America, and Target.

Robert guided EMCS through a statewide flavor-ban for Tobacco in 2023 showing success in multiple KPI's and using that experience to build sales planning for 2024 and beyond.  EMCS is always looking to the future and trying to find new ways to innovate and look through different lenses at the buisiness today and where the orginization would like to be in the future.

 

Format: Awards Awards
Awards announcements and presentation.
Format: Case Study Case Study
General topic presenting lessons learned start to finish.
Format: Expert-Expert Interview Expert-Expert Interview
Replaces fireside chat or single presenter format. Must be known industry expert or presentation of robust data.
Format: Ignite Ignite
Slides run automatically keeping speaker pacing. Keeps session moving.
Format: Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope
One topic through the eyes of different functional teams (e.g. supply chain, store ops, frontline, finance, etc.)
Format: Lightning Lightning
Moderated Q&A with small panel with efforts to drive diverse perspective; after 3 minutes on question, buzzer sounds and move to next question; forces people to be brief and clear on answers.
Format: Masterclass Masterclass
Single topic session which is a solo presenter and acts more like an university lecture. Must include multiple media, audience interaction, etc.
Format: Panel Panel
Multiple presenters, experts in a certain field discussing and sharing expertise and experience with one another.
Format: Great Debate: Point Counterpoint Great Debate: Point Counterpoint
Facilitator stimulates point/counterpoint debate on key industry topic.
Format: Roundtables Roundtables
Facilitated discussion. Limited use of slides or video to set-up topic.
Format: Think You Know Me? Think You Know Me?
One group is polled on a topic, and then the other has to guess the outcomes, as a stimulant for discussion.
Format: Workshop Workshop
Traditional small group classroom style format.

Speaking at:

Backbar Pivots Amidst Flavor Prohibitions

In this session shaped for category managers for large, small and independent retailers as well as operations professionals, we'll explore how retailers have adapted their back bar in the wake...

October 08, 2024
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
Category Management
Format: Panel Panel
 
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