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Rent-to-own News - National TV Sales leads food drive
All of National TV Sales & Rental's 17 stores throughout Missouri are filling up their food pantries in each of the towns where they do business as part of their “Families helping Families" campaign.
Though company donations have been made to the Lebanon, Missouri food pantry -- home base for National TV Sales and Rental -- owner Kathy Windsor encouraged individual stores to create grass-roots efforts in the individual communities they serve.
"We are seeing a lot of families that were squeaking by last year, but with the price of food increasing so rapidly, they aren't able to keep up this year," said National TV Sales Owner Kathy Windsor. "Rent to own is all about families and now is the time for our families to help other families. Can you imagine what an impact our industry could make in all the small towns where we do business without at great deal of effort."
Windsor challenged rental dealers across the country to help fill up food banks in their local communities in any way they can.
"Every little bit helps," she said. "We're letting our stores come up with their own ideas. As long as it's G-rated. We're okay with it."
Some of the more creative proposals Windsor has seen include one manager throwing a "block party" for his shopping center and one "grill master" who has committed to grill hot dogs every Saturday and sell them for $1 or two cans of food.
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2012 APRO Convention and Trade Show July 24-26, Memphis, TN
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RTOHQ: The Magazine
RTOHQ: The Magazine is the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations' award-winning rent-to-own industry magazine, and it's available here. | |||
 CLICK HERE FOR OUR DIGITAL RTOHQ: THE MAGAZINE
RTOHQ: The Magazine’s upgraded digital format APRO's new, mobile-ready magazine is now available in addition to our print edition. The digital format provides the same informative content as our printed magazine, but also offers tools to make the reading experience more enriching. Access the table of contents page with one click or tap. Get additional information from advertisers by clicking on the links in their ads. The interface is easy to navigate and requires no special app—read our magazine on your computer, digital table or smartphone. Click here to access the digital version of RTOHQ: The Magazine March-April 2012.
A New Rent-to-Own Experience by Neil Ferguson Here’s the lowdown on APRO’s 2012 Convention and Trade Show, July 24-26 in Memphis. The RTO industry’s big event will offer many valuable experiences, including insights on how to turn your stores into “experiences”–the good kind for consumers
Who Is Your Competition? by Bill Keese In order to expand your customer base, you can learn a lot by observing your competitors. But first, you need to figure out just who they are. If you think your only competition is the rent-to-own store down the street, you’re not considering the bigger picture. APRO’s executive director offers a big-picture perspective.
A Review of Online Customer Complaints by Ed Winn III While rent-to-own companies have not cornered the market on negative reviews posted on consumer complaint websites, it’s no surprise that there are cyberspace beefs against RTO. APRO’s general counsel reviews some of them in search of a pattern and he considers appropriate response to online complaints.
Rent-to-Own Families, Part VIII by Kristen Card Our series of family-run rent-to-own businesses continues with profiles of the Homeiers in Kansas and two Texas-based sets of kindred colleagues, the Spangles and the Weisblatts.
Future issues of APRO's magazine will be available in this same new format. Click here to access past issues that are not yet archived in the new interface.
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