He earned the money being a professional Jazz Singer. The Number 2 guy has two sons that are moving up. I mean were looking for people whove drunk the Kool-Aid. CC: Well yeah because they had a lot of stores, you know when we went to Atlanta they had, I dont know 35 or 40 stores and the local guy had 40 stores or whatever. So as you get people who do come in and they get good service and they see its a nice store and the prices are nice and all that kind of stuff, then they become your customer after a while, but gasoline gets them to stop. CC: Well, yeah credit cards that pay at the pump thing, was a whole expensive thing to go through because that took technology. And so we had this dog and we were getting into gasoline advertising. A set of benefitsleadershave not only tamed the healthcare cost beast, they are showing that thebest way to slash healthcare costs is toimprove health [], Staring out at the infield of Atlanta Motor Speedway last year, Mike Beltz said he remembers thinking how "phenomenal it was" to see a folded American flag -- the logo of the Folds of Honor organization -- painted on the grass for NASCAR's inaugural Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 race. (Laughter) Was it about 1962 your gross sales went beyond a million dollars? Listen now as Chester Cadieux takes you back to the early days on VoicesofOklahoma.com, JE: Okay and you were born probably at which hospital in Tulsa? JE: Then was there a point where you discovered that grocery stores and convenience stores really have little in common? His most recent position is the Chairman of the Board, a position he has occupied for the past seven years. #3) Oprah Winfrey net worth . And we were there, and we listened to it, and now weve gotten a lot more sophisticated. CC: Yeah, and were okay in Tulsa because we did it first here. I mean youve got to offer Coke and Pepsi and all the big names. JE: So then, as we talked earlier, they were known as drive-in grocery stores, how did the concept of calling them convenience stores come about? John Erling: You have just heard the story of QuikTrip, and you will now be interested in the book From Lucky to Smart: Leadership Lessons from QuikTrip with Chester Cadieux. CC: Lloyd was magic because everybody knew Lloyd, everybody respected Lloyd.