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Best place to celebrate a birthday!! All jokes aside, Kwik Trip seriously is the greatest gas station around! The Kwik Trip mission is to treat others as they would like to be treated and putting the consumer at such a high priority has made the chain thrive to the noteriety it has now. Given the lengthy process and supply chain of getting gas all the way to your local station from the ground of which it came, profit margins on gas are low. So low, that gas station owners can really only make their money from the goods inside the building they sell. “So what makes it so special?” Great question reader, and it is because Kwik Trip has taken out the complex supply chain of its products inside the store and sources a lot of them directly from a Kwik Trip owned kitchen. This doesn’t only make their goods delicious, it makes them extremely affordable too! We eat tasty treats, Kwik Trip still makes it’s money. This can be contained by a tight-knit geographical leash which keeps Kwik Trip mainly in Wisconsin. That turns the focus onto a narrow number of areas within the business such as food quality, cleanliness, and customer service which gave Kwik Trip the #1 spot of gas stations ranked by USA Today. In my 22 years on this Earth, I have never gone into a Kwik Trip and had a negative experience with an employee. That confidence probably comes from child care, healthcare, scholarships, 40% profit sharing, and recognition programs among many other benefits available to their staff. Regardless of what Kwik Trip does or does not do great, there is plenty that we can learn as businesspeople about how putting the consumer first instead of analyzing their consumer habits and manipulating them can really help a company thrive. The welcoming atmosphere at Kwik Trip is no joke and paired with Midwest hospitality it becomes unbeatable, so I get why this guy would want his birthday to be there!

Remembering their courage, honor and bravery, today and every day. Happy Memorial Day 🇺🇸 #CallCriteria #CallCenter #ContactCenter #CallCenterSolutions #ContactCenterSolutions #QualityAssurance #CallCenterLife #CallCenterProblems #CallCenterBoss

Such a powerful message in such a simple way. 💙

My dad has dementia. And I’m losing a bit of him every day. It has been devastating to watch the towering 6ft 6in man, my dad, my rock, lose more and more of himself. An English teacher - a man of words – he has withdrawn from social and family interactions, losing his love of words and communicating. This weekend’s family Easter celebration was another painful reminder of that. This appalling, slow death of ‘self’ will impact half of us – either directly or a family member. So why on earth is no one is talking about it?? You may have seen the new ad from Alzheimer’s Society, “The Long Goodbye”. This portrayal of dementia from the point of view of the family – losing their loved one again, and again, and again… and the incredible pain that causes – is one that resonates all too strongly. So I’m incredibly proud that me and my team at Alzheimer’s Society are partnering with amazing people, trusts and foundations, who will not lie down and accept the devastation that dementia is causing millions of families worldwide. People and organisations that are standing with us, investing in support for families like mine navigating the daily challenges and trauma today, and investing in new treatments and diagnosis that will transform all of our experiences of dementia in the future. The Long Goodbye shows just how badly that change is needed. If you haven’t seen it yet, I really recommend giving it a watch. Hundreds of families affected by dementia – just like mine - contributed to its making. And if you’re going through this too, please know Alzheimer’s Society will be there for you - again and again, and again. 💙 #dementia #alzheimers #alzheimerssociety #longgoodbye

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It is true, and everyone who cares for us and loves us knows when any changes happen to us, if we are sad or happy, or if we need any help without asking them. That is the beauty of the relationship. #motivationalpost #inspirationalquotes #peoplecare #leadershipdevelopment #developingpeople

Knowledge is power

This campaign is ableist, it is dehumanising & it literally positions people living with dementia as dead. Nobody objects to telling the truth, to discussing anticipatory grief or outlining the devastating impact of the condition on family carers. But I deeply object to the use of death as a metaphor for the lives of people with dementia. I object to every single loss or symptom being framed as death. I object to not campaigning for adequate supports and services rather using frightening imagery. I object to the professionals involved using marketing speak about the campaign. I object to the very valid lived experience of family carers being used as a tool to dehumanise those for whom they care. I object to nobody pointing out that the ‘deaths’ or disease progression could have been eased with appropriate supports. This is the darkest day in dementia advocacy I have experienced in the last decade.

At the very beginning of this process we wanted to be laser-like and single minded in our focus on what the single enemy was we wanted to tackle. It was of course ‘dementia’. There are lots of important next-tier enemies; diagnosis, stigma, funding, unpaid carers, postcode lottery etc and each of those is a vital area requiring improvement. But the overarching, common enemy is and was dementia. While most people who have experienced dementia, as almost everyone that worked on this ad has, find it hard to believe that the public often don’t see dementia as a major injustice, we have the data to show that’s the case. “Your old, you’ve got to die of something, perhaps it’s a blissful way to go. Etc. “ It isn’t! Despite it being the biggest health and social care issue of our time, only 30% of the public strongly agree that urgent action is needed on dementia. We have to change that. And showing dementia at its worst is unfortunately necessary to do so. Whatever our areas of focus are, surely it’s time for us to unite and galvanise around the one main enemy we all want to defeat, dementia. We finally have the UK’s biggest killer on the run. Let’s stick together and finish the job!

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