About Project Retail

We Get You, Because We Were You

You started your business because you love retail: the products, your customers, and the community around your store. You probably didn’t start it because you wanted to spend your days looking at spreadsheets and interpreting financial statements.

Each of our advisors started their careers in retail just like you — as a store owner or operator. We understand the numbers and the strategies that make you profitable, but we also understand market appointments, slow-moving inventory, staffing problems, cash pressure, seasonal surprises, and the weight of knowing that every decision ultimately lands with you.

Our firsthand experience helps us tell clients things that can sometimes be hard to hear in a useful, motivating way. Working with us, you receive direct, honest guidance from someone who understands you because they’ve been in your shoes.

You don’t have to love the numbers, but you do need someone who can interpret them and factor that data into every strategic decision. We’re those people.

Why You Can Trust Project Retail

Clients come to us for help with buying, inventory, cash flow, and growth. They stay because they gain a trusted advisor who understands them, celebrates their wins, and shares the burden.

• Decades of experience: Project Retail has served independent retailers since 2008. We’ve been at this long enough to see fashion cycles come back around!
• High-tech, high-touch planning: Your advisor uses our proprietary planning platform to see what’s happening across sales, inventory, purchasing, and cash flow. Then, they interpret the story, explain what matters, and help you act on it.
• The right advisor, backed by a full team: We match you with an advisor based on your business, needs, and working style. They become your consistent point of contact while drawing on the specialized experience of our full team.
• Reliable partners you can lean on: We provide honest perspective, reliable follow-through, and ongoing support as your business changes. That trust is why 95% of our clients stay with us year over year.
• A true passion for independent retail: We live, eat, and breathe retail. We care about helping independent stores thrive because we know what they mean to their owners, employees, customers, and communities.

Advice Built for the Realities of Retail

Our approach reflects what each of us needed when we were running stores ourselves: clear information, practical direction, and a trusted person willing to not only share in the wins but also tell the hard truths.