by Countywide2015 | Dec 28, 2015 | 2012 Summer Newsletter, Pump Newsletter
Consumer Activist Jamie Court calls it, “Capitulation, after you get bonked on the head by $4 gasoline enough times, maybe it doesn’t hurt as much. But there is still plenty of consumer angst bubbling under the outward signs of resignation.” In 2008, when gas...
by Countywide2015 | Dec 28, 2015 | 2012 Summer Newsletter, Pump Newsletter
The Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) is a law that was enacted by the U.S. Congress that prohibits, discrimination based on disability, defined as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity.” The original intent of the law...
by Countywide2015 | Dec 28, 2015 | 2012 Summer Newsletter, Pump Newsletter
Restoring Hope Entering the Institute, there were many mentally handicapped people being cared for by teachers and volunteers. One young man was upset and screeching and hitting and bashing himself in the head over and over. Transcending any creed, the kindness and...
by Countywide2015 | Dec 28, 2015 | 2012 Summer Newsletter, Pump Newsletter
Tony Mazzarini Sr. came back from serving in the Air Force in WWII, and made a vow “I will never be poor again.” The son of courageous hard-working immigrants who left home and family in the 1920’s, and braved an ocean voyage to come through Ellis Island to America in...
by Countywide2015 | Dec 28, 2015 | 2012 Summer Newsletter, Pump Newsletter
When it comes to creating a beautiful gas station/c-store, Frank J. DiDonato says, “From putting pencil to paper, to design and layout, to the completion of the job, you don’t have to go anywhere else.” Frank and his team at S.I.S. design gas station/c-stores and then...
by Countywide2015 | Dec 28, 2015 | 2012 Summer Newsletter, Pump Newsletter
The blue-collar man who smokes used to account for the majority of gas station/convenience store sales. Today, it is a very different matter. More and more, the survival of these stores is based on non-fuel offerings. The trend is to turn gas station/convenience...
