The Quick Trip Company: Types Of Technology

Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Institution: Date Submitted: Introduction Quick trip is a corporation that was founded by Chester Cadieux and But Holmes in 1958 in Oklahoma in United States of America. Quick trip is concerned with the sale and distribution of gasoline in the parts of United States of America. Quick trip has more than 300 convenience stores of gasoline in the United States of America, which is a good share ownership in the market. Some of the gasoline products that gasoline provides include ethanol fuel, truck fuel and auto diesel in the United States of America. Quick trip also is engaged in the preparation of food and drinks for its customer’s .Some of the food that the company prepares includes pizzas, frozen treats and sandwiches and soft drinks in the United States of America. Today the quick trip company is under the management of Chester’s son Chet cadieux as the chief executive of the company. The following is a discussion of the quick trip company consisting of the type of technology used, the organizational layout and metric performance used in the organization. The Quick trip company uses a number of strategies in its operation in ensuring that it gains a competitive advantage over its competitors. Some of the competitive priorities that need to be focused on include quality, cost, performance, flexibility and innovativeness. The Quick trip organization has chosen to invest in its employees as a strategy of excelling in its operations. Quick trip has given the employees responsibility and given them value to work excellently in the company for the benefit of quick trip .Quick trip has employed the strategy of paying good wages and promotions for its employees, something which gives morale to the employees to work for the benefit of the organization. Quick Trip Company has been listed as one of the best organization in the United States among the 100 organizations since the year 2003.This has been developed as a culture of the company and entirely depends on the standardized policies regarding sales, assessment of performance and disciplinary procedures .Consequently the hiring procedure entails looking at the individuals level of education, the experience the individual has as well as the high performance of the individual .Some of the individuals are employed as part of the staff of Quick trip and they get detailed training for an activity .The part time employees are trained for less hours which can be estimated to be forty five hours while the fulltime employees are trained for a period estimated to be fourteen days or more. The employees of the company are compensating well in terms of good salaries and wages as well as being appreciated in their work and commitment to Quick Trip Company. The job security is ensured in the organization which motivates the employees of the Quick trip (Epstein & Roy, 2001). The company, Quick trip plans to get competitive advantage over other companies by opening more and more stores each year and employing employees with better qualities for instance clean and gloomy employees to attract customers to Quick trip something which ensures that the company grows and maintains customer’s loyalty. Operation management activities affecting customers experienc...