Retail Consulting Services
Over the years the members of our consulting team have created and/or refined operating procedures for the majority of food retailers with annual sales over $500 million. That process was very successful, and very valuable, for the retailers who engaged us. In continuation of that tradition, we continue to offer Supermarket / Grocery chains superior customer service and our deep experience base.
Our approach to working with a client organization is focused on partnering. We see our role as one of a coach, guiding and teaching our client teams to function more effectively. We measure our success by their ability to function better after we have departed, having benefited greatly from our presence.
Our grocery consulting team is staffed by experts who have decades of deep operational consulting experience and industry leadership experience. We believe that the food segment of retail is sufficiently unique to warrant specialists who know food operations intimately. Our team has that specific knowledge.
Typical food (store operations) projects begin with a detailed Assessment for senior management. In this Assessment we identify and explain all of the opportunities we believe exist for a client. Our approach gives our clients all of the detail they would need to make positive change happen in their stores. Most of our clients are so impressed with our depth of understanding that they have asked us to also test and/or guide implementation of the agreed upon opportunities for them.
We can assist you to improve your food retail effectiveness with various types of consulting assistance including:
- Operational Best Practices Implementation
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- Operational Benchmarking
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- Operational Training Programs
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- Management / Leadership Skills Training
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- On-floor Associate Service Behaviors
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- Customer Experience Assessment
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- Customer Service Strategies
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- Optimal Front-End Procedures
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- Front-End Supervision
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- Front-End Service Behaviors
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- Price Integrity Improvement Programs
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- Inventory Management / SKU Rationalization
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- Backroom Inventory Reduction
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- Backroom Layout and Utilization
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- DSD Procedures / Vendor Negotiation
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- Cycle Count Procedures
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- Production Planning Techniques
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- Optimal Night Crew Procedures
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- Efficient Re-Order Practices
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- CRM / Loyalty Programs
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- Cash Office Procedures
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- Pharmacy Productivity Improvement
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- Labor Standards Development
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- Scheduling System Implementation / Testing
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- Operational Procedures Documentation
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- Operational Analysis
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- Operating Metrics
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- Shrink Control Programs
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- Category Management
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- Vendor Labor Utilization
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- Organizational Re-Alignment
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- Store Systems Assessment
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