Store Operations

Four Exchanges Awarded Director/CEO Cup as Top Stores Worldwide

By Marisa Conner / March 25, 2024 /

The Retail Food and Services Managers Conference started with a bang with the awarding of the Director/CEO Cup, the Exchange’s highest honor.

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Director/CEO Tom Shull Opens Managers’ Conference With Message of Unity, Strength

By Robert Philpot / March 25, 2024 /

Leading cheers of “Better Together,” the theme of the Exchange’s first Retail, Food and Services Managers’ Conference, Director/CEO Tom Shull kicked off the conference with a message emphasizing unity and strength.

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Words from the Director/CEO: How Exchange Teams Strengthened the Benefit in 2023

By Tom Shull / February 20, 2024 /

With momentum on our side, Team Exchange moved out to score big wins on critical strategic priorities to increase efficiencies and enhance the customer experience:

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Sibling Rivalry Heats Up as Hanscom Exchange Rewards Sisters For Academic Excellence

By Zach Wright / February 14, 2024 /

Studying hard yielded great results for two sisters who took second and third place in the Exchange’s worldwide You Made the Grade sweepstakes—the first time in the program’s 23-year history siblings won in the same drawing.

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Rosenberg Named President, Randolph promoted to COO as Reorganization Launches

By Tom Shull / February 13, 2024 /

The Exchange is positioning the organization for the future by significantly integrating retail operations and merchandise functions to improve the customer experience and increase sales and earnings.

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She Made the Grade! Fort Leavenworth Sixth-Grader Scores $2,000 Exchange Gift Card for Academic Excellence

By Keiana Holleman / January 31, 2024 /

A 12-year-old student at Patton Junior High School in Fort Leavenworth took home the first-place prize in the Exchange’s worldwide You Made the Grade sweepstakes. The program celebrates military students’ academic success and resilience in the classroom.

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Exchanges Ready to Adapt as Black Friday Presents New Challenges, Opportunities

By Robert Philpot / November 21, 2023 /

Every year, especially since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Black Friday has been a little different. And every year, the Exchange adapts and faces the challenges.

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Exchange Celebrates New Donation Partnership with Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society

By SSG Mark Kauffman / November 2, 2023 /

The partnership allows Exchange shoppers on U.S. Marine Corps bases in the Pacific Region to donate to the relief agency at checkout.

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Exchange Teams Work to Make In-Store Support of Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society a Reality

By Marisa Conner / October 11, 2023 /

When command leadership at Pacific Region installations approached the Exchange about expanding its military relief partnership to include the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS), teams from across the Exchange sat down to plan a course of action. It only took one meeting to make it happen.

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Words From the Director/CEO: A Midyear Update on Strategic Priorities for 2023

By Tom Shull / September 8, 2023 /

With the second half of FY 2023 in full swing, the Exchange remains strong, supporting the mission through critical strategic value levers to protect and preserve the hard-earned benefit we are honored to provide service members and their families.

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