With more than 40 years in convenience retail, Raymond Huff has operated HJB Convenience dba Russell's Convenience within high-rise office buildings. The closeness of the store locations required a specialty tech solution created by his software company Tenderfoot Software. The systems created include back office, point of sales, loyalty, and door access systems for his Russell's Xpress chain.
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Join Gray Taylor as he sits down (virtually) with Raymond Huff in this Fireside Chat VIP session. Gray and Raymond discuss Raymond’s successful career, how he developed such a unique niche in the convenience store industry, and many other topics that arose during this casual conversation!
With more than 40 years in convenience retail, Raymond has operated HJB Convenience dba Russell's Convenience within high-rise office buildings. The closeness of the store locations required a specialty tech solution created by his software company Tenderfoot Software. The systems created include back office, point of sales, loyalty, and door access systems for his Russell's Xpress chain.
He currently serves on the Conexxus Advisory Board as chairman and on the NACS board assigned to the legislative committee.
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With more than 40 years in convenience retail Raymond has operated HJB Convenience dba Russell's Convenience within high rise office buildings. The closeness of the store locations required specialty tech solution created by his software company Tenderfoot Software. The systems created includes back office, point of sales, loyalty and door access systems for his Russell's Xpress chain.
He currently serves on the Conexxus Advisory Board as chairman and on the NACS board assigned to the legislative committee. He lives in Denver, Co with his wife of 25 years, and has 2 adult children.
Gray literally grew up in the convenience store industry with the opening of the family’s first convenience store in 1963. Involved in the family business, comprised of 87 stores, he gained experience in all phases of convenience store and chain retail operations.
Gray has been involved on a variety of projects, including heading global product management for three of the world’s largest retail petroleum equipment and systems suppliers and Vice President of Research & Technology for the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS). Gray managed product portfolios that included payment platforms for EMV migration markets from Malaysia to Canada, as well as mobile/RFID payments initiatives. Gray also established NACS’ card payments program which saved the industry $60M in its first year of operations, and currently serves over 1,500 stores, doing 100m transactions annually.