Cannabis Storage: Could Your Safe be Ruining Your Product?

Like a fine wine cellar or whiskey barrel, cannabis is best when aged in a cool, dark place. Heat can dry out essential oils and too much moisture can cause dangerous bacteria and mold to grow. Cannabis and Heat Organic matter thrives in temperatures between 77° and 86° F, so keep your product stored below this temperature to prevent mildew …

Opening and Closing Procedures

The Importance of Opening and Closing Procedures for Your Store

Risk mitigation is defined as taking steps to reduce adverse effects. One of the many ways you should practice risk mitigation is to have opening and closing procedures for your store.​Criminals know that employees may be more vulnerable when opening or closing a store. The employees may be focused on other tasks or just tired. Often, they are not alert to or …

The Benefits of Access Control Security Systems for C-Stores

By David Hochman, Founder, DJH Marketing Communications Everything from limiting the points-of-entry, to controlling which employees have access to high-value storage rooms, access control solutions can cover many different aspects of convenience store security and risk management. The convenience store category collectively faces a number of challenges with regards to building access control to consider. To start with, the industry’s …

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Emergency Planning: Part 2

Protecting your business during a civil disturbance IN PART ONE OF THIS SERIES, we reviewed the importance of developing an emergency action plan for a natural disaster. In part two, we will review emergency planning for a civil disturbance. In today’s business environment, civil disturbances or civil unrest are a fact of life. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency …

Emergency Planning

Emergency Planning: Part 1

Being prepared could save your business A natural disaster can strike no matter where you live in the U.S. You have hurricanes on the east coast, earthquakes on the west coast, and tornadoes in the middle. In this two-part series, we look at the importance of developing an emergency plan and the basic steps to take in either a natural …