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Retail Workplace & Real Estate

Retail Space Effectiveness Audit

Find out whether your stores work for the customer on the floor and the systems behind the walls.

When to engage

Is This The Right Moment?

Retailers engage when stores cost more to run than they should, perform unevenly across the network, or are about to be refit, replicated, or closed.

  • A new format or refit is about to roll out across the network, and nobody has tested the current one
  • Similar stores deliver very different results, and nobody has measured whether layout is the cause
  • Customers queue, backtrack, or leave, and staff spend more time in the back than on the floor
  • Lighting, climate control, network, or security systems vary from store to store, and nobody owns the standard

What you leave with

What This Engagement Achieves

  1. 01A customer experience read: how people enter, move, find, try, pay, and leave
  2. 02A technical effectiveness review of lighting, climate control, network, power, and security infrastructure
  3. 03A ranked findings register, each gap tied to its cost, conversion, or risk impact
  4. 04A clear set of next moves: fix in store, standardize across the network, or build into the next format

The engagement

How It Works

  1. Step 01

    Scope

    We agree which stores, which formats, and which questions. Your network sets the depth, not a package.

  2. Step 02

    Gather

    Store plans, sales and traffic data, maintenance and energy records, incident logs, and conversations with store leaders and teams.

  3. Step 03

    Observe

    Store visits across trading hours and days, following both the customer path and the staff path, front of house and back.

  4. Step 04

    Report

    A findings session with your leadership team, followed by a written report you own outright.

What is included

One Engagement, Scoped To Your Network

Single scope

Retail Space Effectiveness Audit

There are no packages. Every audit covers the same core ground, and we set the depth together in the first conversation.

  • Customer flow, wayfinding, and dwell zones
  • Fitting rooms, queues, and checkout capacity
  • Back-of-house layout, receiving, and stockroom flow
  • Lighting, climate control, and power measured against how the store trades
  • How reliable the network, POS, and in-store technology are
  • Security and loss prevention infrastructure, reviewed independently of any vendor

Where we find gaps in security governance, or in the hard services, soft services, and procedures that keep stores running, we name them plainly. Fixing them belongs to our Physical Security Strategy & Assurance and Operating Standards & Governance Frameworks engagements.

Independent by design

We sell no fixtures, no fit-outs, no systems, and no store design. Our only product is the answer, which is why you can use it to hold every vendor to account.

Continue the journey

Related Engagements

Physical Security Strategy & Assurance

Turn security findings into standards and governance that hold in every store.

Space Effectiveness Audit

Apply the same lens to your head office.

Operating Standards & Governance Frameworks

Set the service standards every store runs on.

Every Store Makes A Promise At The Door. We Check Whether The Building Keeps It.

Most engagements begin with a thirty-minute conversation. No pitch deck.

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