Consulting for Independent Pet Retailers

Systems built on a real sales floor. Installed in yours.

These aren't frameworks from a business book. Every system below was built, broken, and rebuilt inside a working independent pet store — then packaged so it can be installed in yours in weeks, not years.

Done-with-you builds · Your POS, your data, your store · No long-term retainers required

Step One — Every Engagement Starts Here

The store diagnostic audit

Before we build anything, we find out what's actually costing you money. The diagnostic is a structured teardown of your inventory performance, your operating systems, and your customer follow-up — scored against benchmarks from real independent stores, not big-box averages.

You leave with a written scorecard and a prioritized punch list. Use it with us, or take it and run — it's yours either way.

*** MPR STORE DIAGNOSTIC ***

ITEMIZED — NOTHING HIDDEN

  • Inventory & GMROI teardownINCL
  • Empty-peg / out-of-stock reviewINCL
  • SOP & training gap assessmentINCL
  • Customer follow-up auditINCL
  • Written scorecard + punch listINCL
  • 60-min findings callINCL

TOTAL$750

CREDITED TOWARD ANY FULL BUILD

The Core Builds

Three systems. Zero guesswork.

Each build attacks one of the three places independent stores leak money: inventory, people, and follow-up. Take one, or stack them.

Build 01 · Inventory

Inventory Intelligence System

Turn the data already sitting in your POS into a weekly decision engine. We build your GMROI scoring model, restock prioritization, and empty-peg tracking — so reorders stop being gut calls and dead inventory stops hiding in plain sight.

Built for you if: you're sitting on inventory you can't explain, reordering by feel, and finding out about out-of-stocks from customers.

What gets installed

  • GMROI-based composite scoring across your catalog
  • Restock prioritization dashboard, tied to your POS exports
  • Weekly empty-peg audit workflow your staff can run
  • Dead-stock identification and exit playbook

Timeline

  • 4–6 weeks, done with you
Investment From $4,500

Build 02 · People

SOP & Training Digitization

Get the store out of your head and into systems your team can run. We document your critical workflows — receiving, special orders, opening/closing, customer service standards — and turn them into digital SOPs and training paths new hires can actually follow.

Built for you if: everything breaks when you take a day off, training a new hire takes months, and "how we do it" lives in three people's memories.

What gets installed

  • Documented SOPs for your 8–12 critical workflows
  • Digital training paths with checklists and sign-offs
  • Receiving and special-order tracking systems
  • Onboarding sequence that cuts ramp-up time in half

Timeline

  • 6–8 weeks, done with you
Investment From $3,500

Build 03 · Follow-Up

CRM & Email Automation Engine

Your customer list is the one asset big-box can't touch — most stores just never use it. We build your CRM foundation and the automations that do the following up for you: new-customer welcomes, replenishment reminders, win-backs, and promo campaigns that run themselves.

Built for you if: your customer data lives in your POS and nowhere else, and marketing happens only when someone remembers to post.

What gets installed

  • CRM setup with your customer data imported and segmented
  • Welcome, replenishment, and win-back automations
  • Branded email templates in your store's voice
  • Monthly campaign calendar and playbook

Timeline

  • 6–8 weeks, done with you
Investment From $5,000

How It Works

Diagnose. Blueprint. Build. Handoff.

Every engagement runs the same proven sequence — because a system nobody can run without you isn't a system.

STEP 1

Diagnose

The $750 audit scores your store and surfaces the highest-leverage build first.

STEP 2

Blueprint

We map the system to your store — your POS, your vendors, your team's reality.

STEP 3

Build

Done with you, in weekly working sessions, on your real data — not a demo.

STEP 4

Handoff

Your team is trained, the SOPs are documented, and the system runs without us.

Why This Isn't Theory

Every system was store-tested before it was ever sold.

These builds come out of a working independent pet store — receiving trackers refined through dozens of versions, scorecards reviewed in real weekly meetings, special-order workflows handling thousands of customers and SKUs. What you're buying is the shortcut past the trial and error.

— Tiff Braxton, Founder · The Modern Pet Retailers

Ready When You Are

Start with the audit.

One diagnostic, one scorecard, one clear next move — and the $750 comes off any full build. Pick a time below.

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