With Covid-related movement restrictions, more and more customers turn to their local convenience stores. Conducting regular Covid Safety audits is a great way for convenience stores to implement social distancing guidelines, to reassure customers and keep them coming back.
Convenience stores as safer shopping alternatives
According to research from analysts at Nielsen, a quarter of consumers say they visit local Convenience Stores more than they did before the pandemic. On their end, convenience stores have stepped up and delivered during the coronavirus outbreak: whereas larger supermarkets have often struggled to cope, local stores worked overtime to keep shelves stocked.
But the coronavirus pandemic has forced C-Store retailers to introduce a variety of social distancing measures to keep staff and customers safe.
Your convenience store operation is undoubtedly scrambling to adapt to the ‘new normal’ and you may already know that the measures you need to make will have a significant impact on your business. But with the situation changing daily, do you know what your next steps should be?
Covid safety audit specifically designed for convenience stores
Are you 100% confident that all the social distancing guidelines are met at all times across your business? Do you monitor and keep consistent evidence of due diligence?
Conducting frequent Covid safety checks, Covid Audits and Covid risk assessments using a checklist built by experts is one way to ensure you’re complying with all of the measures.
We collaborated with C-Store Collective, a team of C-Store experts, and with convenience store operators across the UK, to identify key safety steps relevant to smaller local stores. We created a Covid Audit checklist specific to Convenience stores, and created a special C-store offering on our GoAudits mobile inspections app.
With GoAudits, you can conduct frequent Covid safety checks quickly and simply. Capture everything on your smartphone or tablet, easily attach photos or comments. After each audit, instantly generate and share informative reports. View trends, recurring issues, compare your performance to other convenience stores.
Ultimately, take corrective action quickly and improve compliance and safety in your store.
Protecting your c-store: compliance with Covid safety measures
We recommend conducting Covid safety checks weekly: a regular audit is the best way to protect your C-Store and your staff while maintaining routine store operations.
You will have all the date and time-stamped evidence to show, should your convenience store be visited by an Environmental Health Officer.
For a limited time, we’re giving you six months access to the C-Store Covid Audit Package Powered by GoAudits. It costs just £30+VAT, with £1 from every package sold going to the Grocery Aid Covid Fund. It supports the entire grocery supply chain with mental health, crisis grants and bereavement financial assistance.
