For hardware stores, garden centres, DIY stores and specialist retailers with 1 to 10 locations.
Margin, stock, shrinkage, budget: I turn your till exports and Excel files into a simple management tool built for your store. 30 years in retail, including 17 in financial control.
Plants: breakage and unsold stock cost 4 margin points.
In most independent stores, the information is there. What's missing is the time and the method to turn it into decisions.
The numbers are there, but nobody has time to read them or compare one month with the next.
Every month, everything has to be copied over. And nobody has the same version of the figures.
Cash tied up, without knowing which product families to tackle first.
Once a year, with the accountant. Too late to correct anything.
Two things you rarely find in the same person: knowing how to read the numbers, and the tool that makes them usable every day.
I read your numbers the way a large chain reads them, and I tell you what they mean for your store.
Not another off-the-shelf package: a tool built around your departments, your exports and your habits.
Clear fixed prices, announced upfront. We almost always start with the review.
I analyse your exports and files, find where your margin is leaking and give you concrete recommendations.
Sales, margin, average basket and year-on-year comparison, by store and by department.
Stock, margin and shrinkage, provisions, budget: one module per topic, built for your store.
Maintenance of your tools and, if you wish, a monthly review of your numbers with me.
Each step is agreed with you before we move on to the next.
Free and with no commitment. You tell me about your store, your numbers and what you're missing.
I analyse your data and give you my recommendations, ranked by priority.
I build the dashboard or business tool that addresses your priorities, and show you how to use it.
If you wish, we keep a monthly meeting to keep the tool alive and read your numbers together.
I spent 13 years in operational and sales management in food retail: departments, teams, sales targets.
Then 17 years in financial control in specialist retail: margin, stock, shrinkage, provisions, budgets and dashboards for senior management.
Today, I put that experience at the service of independent retailers. I understand your business before I write a single line of code.
Read about my backgroundA free first conversation to understand your store, then a fixed-price review, deducted if you go further.