Economy/Business question

[2MinsToPost]

I'm in the grocery business. The company I work for is one of the power houses in the Midwest with over 200 stores and growing. Funny thing is this came up at a Meeting I was at this past Saturday before our Grand Opening of the store I am at now.

For our existing stores, business is up 15% across the board ending this fiscal year (our fiscal year ends in June) compared to fiscal year ending 2007. Keep in mind we have a great fuel perks program that can save our customers a ton of money on gas they purchase from our stations based on how much they spend in our stores.

[ddthetide]

i'm a serviceman for the electric dept. people aren't paying thier electric bills until they have to. the first week of april is usually VERY busy and the last week of oct doing cut-offs for non-payment. (CONPs) because of the warm spring and early summer heat we cut off 85 today and about that many tomorrow. the bills are climbing and we're trying to keep them in hand.

[ninetoone]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

i'm a serviceman for the electric dept. people aren't paying thier electric bills until they have to. the first week of april is usually VERY busy and the last week of oct doing cut-offs for non-payment. (CONPs) because of the warm spring and early summer heat we cut off 85 today and about that many tomorrow. the bills are climbing and we're trying to keep them in hand.

I hear a lot of places have (or are beginning) legislation to ban cutting off someone's electricity/gas when the temp rises above 95 degrees, etc...have you seen this?

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by ninetoone

I hear a lot of places have (or are beginning) legislation to ban cutting off someone's electricity/gas when the temp rises above 95 degrees, etc...have you seen this?

we had this discussion this morning if we should do them or not.. wash. dc does not cut-off above 95* i do know that one.
i work for a city govt. the public service commission has different rules for us than for private companies. it's actually tougher for us to do CON-P's so we have to do them when we can. april 1- oct 31 we have few restrictions. nov 1- march 31 we can do CON-P's but we have to jump through hoops. they have to be notified 2 times. once is the termination bill, second is a 24hrs notice hand delivered. then we have to notify the PSC, if they ok it, we then have a 10 day window to do the disconnect, it must stay above 32* for about 24hrs after. each states PSC regs are different. Pennsylvania has a regulation i love for us to have. in Pa. if a tenant is evicted or skips out and owes a electric bill. the owner has to pay the bill to have service restored, then fight with the tenant to get the money. a Pa. town 30 miles to our north has a 90% collection rate and doesn't have near the trouble we do. they've not had the "trash" and slumlords move into their town and the regulation is part of the reason.