We're off to the WAFC convention in Palm Desert today. Sue, Ron and I decided to all ride together since it's about two and half hours from Marina Del Rey. Every year the Western Association of Food Chains holds a convention where retailers and suppliers get together to network, attend education sessions and meet on business issues. We're looking forward to the experience and to a few hours of R&R. We still have a lot of work to do while we're there, catching up with homework and getting started on our research for the Mergers presentation only a week after we get back.
We're staying at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Palm Desert. The convention is actually a couple miles away at the Desert Springs Resort. It's a huge hotel on a 36 hole golf course, but there isn't enough room there for everyone who's attending the convention which shows how big the convention is. As soon as we arrived at the hotel and got settled in we went over to the convention to register and do some TV interviews. The WAFC is putting together some promotional commercials for the Retail Certificate Program that they run at community colleges throughout the west and they've asked to interview us about some of the things we've learned in the FIM program and our general impressions about the value of the courses available in the Retail Certificate Program.
I'm looking forward to some of the speakers, like Sam Donaldson, and Kenny Loggins will be playing at the banquet at the end of the convention. It should be a fun time.
Below, my room at the Rancho Las Palmas and a picture of the golf course off of my patio.
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