Retail Store Operations Guide 2025 | Strategies for Retail Leaders
Retail Store Operations 2025: Strategies for Retail Leaders Your stores are under more pressure than ever. And your competitors aren’t waiting. The Store Operations Challenge: A Perfect Storm Retailers are facing an unprecedented convergence of operational challenges. Labor shortages [...]
Supply Chain Resilience in the Face of Disruption
Supply Chain Resilience in the Face of Disruption: A Strategic Approach for Retail and CPG Leaders You can’t escape the next supply chain disruption—but you can outmaneuver it. For retail and CPG leaders, the real challenge isn’t whether trade policy, [...]
Winning with Data and Hyper-Localized Assortments
When Every Store Is Unique: Winning with Data and Hyper-Localized Assortments In this episode of The Parker Avery Group's "Talk Retail to Me" podcast, retail experts Marty Anderson and Mike Johnson delve into how our firm collaborated with a major theme park retailer to untangle [...]
Optimizing Data Readiness for Retail AI
Optimizing Data Readiness for AI in Retail: A Complete Guide The success of any AI initiative hinges on one crucial factor—data readiness. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the retail industry by enabling more accurate demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and personalized [...]
Execute AI for Success in Retail
Beyond the NRF 2025 Big Show: How Leading Retailers Execute AI for Success The energy at the NRF 2025 Big Show was undeniable. From the moment attendees stepped through the doors, the excitement surrounding AI and new technologies was tangible. It was evident that once regarded as [...]
EI Hypercube Redefines Retail Success
One Demand Signal, Endless Growth: EI Hypercube Redefines Retail Success Finally, a solution that addresses retail challenges, produces measurable results, and provides long-term strategic value, without adding complexity. Retail and consumer brand executives seek smarter ways to optimize performance [...]
Essential Merchandising Capabilities
Three Essential Merchandising Capabilities to Lead Retail in 2025 Without the right merchandising capabilities in place, you risk being left behind. As retailers prepare for another year of transformation, the pace of change in consumer behavior, technology adoption, and supply chain [...]
How Process Became a Retailer’s Bridge to Trust
The RACI Revolution: How Process Became a Retailer’s Bridge to Trust In this episode of Talk Retail to Me, we dive into a transformation at one of America's largest family-owned luxury retailers. What started as a straightforward project to clarify roles became a journey of [...]
6 Must-Reads for NRF’s Big Show
Six Must Reads for NRF's Big Show Heading to NYC for NRF’s Big Show in January? Get ahead of the game with these six essential reads that will sharpen your focus and guide your investment strategies at retail’s biggest event of the year. [...]
Retail Quick Wins for a Successful Q4
Purposeful Planning: Retail Quick Wins for a Successful Q4 Achievable retail quick wins to boost holiday outcomes and key considerations for your capability roadmap and long-term success As we approach the 2024 holiday season, retail faces a blend of opportunities and challenges. Consumers [...]
Successful Retail Software Selection
Five Key Tenets to Successful Retail Software Selection Selecting the right software partner has become a critical strategic decision for retail leaders. With no shortage of software companies in today's arena vying for retail and consumer goods companies' business, having [...]
Start Leading Successful Retail Transformation
How to Stop Managing Change and Start Leading Successful Retail Transformation Many retail leaders find themselves trapped in a cycle of failed or lackluster transformations, never quite achieving the level of success they envision. Despite grand announcements and ambitious plans, these [...]
Modernizing Retail Merchandising
Harmonizing and Modernizing Retail Merchandising: Insights from a Major Jewelry Retailer Project Talk Retail to Me Podcast | September 03, 2024 In the latest episode of Parker Avery's "Talk Retail to Me" podcast, Clay Parnell (President and Managing Partner) and Marty Anderson (Principal) discuss [...]
Success with Retail Integrated Business Planning
Five Keys to Reaching Success with Retail Integrated Business Planning In an ever-evolving consumer landscape, successful retail integrated business planning is crucial to survival. In today's fast-paced world, integrated business planning (IBP) has become a critical capability for retailers and consumer [...]
Store Operations Improvement Project
Behind the Scenes of a Remarkable Store Operations Improvement Project In a recent episode of Parker Avery Group’s “Talk Retail to Me” podcast, retail consulting professionals Tricia Gustin, Carrie Habel, and Dustin Wright shared insights from a noteworthy store operations project. They detail their innovative approach, [...]
Ask the Hypercube
Ask the Hypercube: Democratizing Predictive Analytics with Generative AI "Ask the Hypercube" transforms how retailers and consumer brands can harness data and intelligence for smarter decisions and better business results. We are excited to announce the launch of our new [...]
Demystifying the Unified Demand Signal
Demystifying the Unified Demand Signal Discover how a unified demand signal can transform your operational efficiency and drive business results. Since the early days of S&OP, companies have sought an aligned understanding of demand. As retailers and brands expand their reach [...]
Let’s Talk About Your Capabilities Roadmap
Let's Talk About Your Capabilities Roadmap Companies often must shift project priorities because they are not collectively thinking “big picture.” Without a comprehensive plan that considers the entire landscape of a company’s business, individual project expectations and objectives are often missed. There are [...]
Process Debt
Hidden Afflictions: How Much Are Clunky Old Processes Costing You? Plenty of industry leaders and experts talk about technical debt with old systems and tools, yet very few speak of ‘process debt’ with the same level of importance. A recent article by Christopher [...]
Core Merchandising vs. PIM
Core Merchandising vs. PIM: Which Solution is Right for Your Item Data? In a retail or consumer packaged goods environment (CPG), the most critical piece of information is item or product data. With omnichannel retail models as the standard and increasing consumer appetite for more details [...]
Smarter Price Optimization
Boost Your Bottom Line with Smarter Price Optimization As we continue delivering smarter price optimization solutions for retailers, I’d like to highlight how several of our retail clients have already achieved strong results because of our solution's key differentiators: Simultaneously Improve Margin, Revenue, [...]
Advanced Pricing Implementation Success Story
Advanced Pricing Implementation Success: $8 Million Margin on Eight Items in Eight Weeks Talk Retail to Me Podcast | November 17, 2020 In this post, we take a deep dive into the astounding success of a Parker Avery client’s advanced pricing implementation. Parker Avery’s case [...]
Retail Business Transformation
Empower Your People with Meaningful Retail Business Transformation The phrase ‘business transformation’ has been around for decades, and typically addresses the three pillars of people, process, and technology. However, often a greater focus is placed on the technology, with improved business processes and the impact [...]
Retail Chief Supply Chain Officer
Ask the Experts: The New Role of Retail's Chief Supply Chain Officer In a recent episode of Parker Avery's Talk Retail to Me podcast, Parker Avery’s Chief Executive Officer, Robert Kaufman shares his insights about the changing role of the retail chief supply chain officer during an [...]
Gratitude Delivered
Gratitude Delivered: Three Reasons to Be Grateful As we approach Thanksgiving in the United States and the winter holiday season around the world, we often hear the words "thankful," "grateful," and "gratitude." In contemplating our November message (coupled with my insatiable quest for knowledge and historical [...]