Retail Solutions
Transforming Store Profitability

Consulting Services

6one5® provides a range of consulting services to complement internal retail resources.

STORE OPERATIONS – PROFIT IMPROVEMENT POWERED BY 6ONE5®

Our consulting model is to work with Retail Executives to understand their strategy and frustrations with execution of that strategy at the store level. We undertake an assessment that identifies issues both at the frontline and Head Office impacting on store profitability. We “product place” the strategy into our  change and training programs for retail area managers, store managers and supervisors (6one5 Mini MBA) the outcome is a 12 month action plan and profit target (normally 25% + target) that reflects the HO Strategy. We then monitor, mentor and measure the implementation.

RETAIL DUE DILIGENCE

We conduct due diligence on retail groups on behalf of our clients who are looking to make the best retail investment decision. We work with our clients to evaluate

  • Store rollout potential
  • Retail Strategy
  • Store Operations Improvements
  • Leasing Analysis
  • Systems Review
  • Talent Assessment
  • Merchandise & Category Management
  • Multi Channel Marketing Strategy

CONSULTING MODEL FOR HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES

Our consulting model replicates a private equity process for growth without having to sell your business.
We work with family owned businesses and public companies who want to optimize shareholder value through aggressive retail expansion and optimizing current store performance.

Our services include:

  • Assessment and store operations review
  • Retail Strategy Review
    • New Store Growth Plan
    • Store Operations Plan – 6one5®
    • HO Services
    • Multi Channel Marketing
  • 100 Day Execution Plans

RETAIL LOCATION AND LEASING

We help our clients to identify, source and negotiate retail locations. Our services include:

  • Devise leasing strategy to achieve a optimum rental
  • Source and negotiate leases with landlords
  • Review and benchmark current stores
  • Review store leasing processes
  • Identify potential store locations using demographics

“RETAIL READY”- RECRUIT-TRAIN-RETAIN

The biggest issue in retail is finding and retaining staff. Our model assist retailers to attract, source, train and retain staff through a career in retail.
Services include:

  • Marketing to attract the right staff
  • Your own web based job board
  • Easy to use web tools to recruit staff
  • Train retail ready staff
  • Retention Strategies

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

We help our clients to review, identify, source and negotiate retail information systems. Our services include

  • IT Strategy Development
  • Systems Review
  • Source Best IT Solution
  • Project management implementation and integration

MYSTERY SHOPPER

Find out how good your current sales and service levels are and measure the improvement as you implement 6one5® Retail Training Solutions.

CLIENTELING

We assist our clients develop and implement clienteling strategies to optimize customer spend.
What is clienteling? It is the practice of providing one-to-one personalized service, offers and communications to customers in a retail environment.

REWARDS AND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS

We assist clients to design and implement reward and recognition systems to improve

  • Retention (including Y Generation)
  • Conversion rates
  • Average transaction value
  • Up sell & cross sell