Supermarket Consultants
Our retail consulting firm receives frequent inquiries from small grocery retailers across the USA concerning consulting assistance. While our core business offering focuses primarily on larger US based supermarket and hard-goods / soft-goods chains, we often assist smaller food retailers with various challenges. Our extensive experience base gained from working with many of the largest grocery chains in the US and Western Europe have allowed us to bring big retail ideas and concepts to smaller, emerging grocers.
Most often small grocery retailers approach us needing
assistance to drive revenue and reduce operating expense - and we are
very effective at assisting them to deal with those challenges. The process of
assisting them begins with an Assessment of your stores and related corporate
support organization. This step is very necessary, as we need to fully
understand how your firm operates and where / why your “real challenges” exist. Management’s
description (to us) of “what is wrong with the business” is often inadequate, and sometimes actually
wrong – so we assess the situation first to
uncover and confirm the real factors that may be negatively affecting your business.
The Assessment process takes approximately two (2) weeks and is moderately priced.
During that time we get to know and interview corporate management, observe the
actual operation of the stores (all functions), and solicit input from the store
associates concerning business challenges from their perspective. Once the
interview / observation process has concluded we spend additional time
researching other internal and external factors that are impacting the success
of the firm. Examples of these other potential factors / variables include (but are not limited to):
- Overall business strategy
- Organizational structure and staffing
- Location / real estate impact
- Local customer demographics
- Knowledge of the “core customer”
- Competitive position awareness
- Advertising / promotion options
- Customer experience
Once we feel we have gathered sufficient information to fully understand your "real challenge" during this Assessment, we develop and present a final report which outlines our findings and the details of a strategy for improvement.
The approximate cost of the Assessment (for small grocery
retailers) is $20,000 - $25,000, plus related travel costs.
If you feel that your grocery retail firm could benefit from an Assessment of this type please contact Pat Fitzpatrick, President of Atlanta Retail Consulting at 770-754-5008 or via E-mail at PCF@AtlantaRetailConsulting.com for a no-obligation conversation. www.AtlantaRetailConsulting.com.
If you feel that your grocery retail firm could benefit from an Assessment of this type please contact Pat Fitzpatrick, President of Atlanta Retail Consulting at 770-754-5008 or via E-mail at PCF@AtlantaRetailConsulting.com for a no-obligation conversation. www.AtlantaRetailConsulting.com.
