The people at the Stores Consulting Group make our company what it is.

Rick Marino is a Managing Director for the Stores Consulting Group, LLC. Prior to this, Rick built and ran both Accenture’s and Capgemini’s Store’s Improvement practice for North America. Rick is one of the premier thought leaders in the retail industry and has been featured on CNBC’s Black Friday’s retail winners and losers report. He has a dozen years of industry experience at retailers such as Limited Brands, Kohl’s and Federated/Macys Department Stores. Rick has developed and executed the industry’s leading retail store performance improvement practice. His stores and company transformation practice has assisted retailers to become profitable and remain viable for the long term. Over the past fifteen years, Rick and his teams have improved the industry’s profitability by over $12 Billion Dollars. Rick has a BA in economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MBA in marketing.

Jim is a Managing Director for the Stores Consulting Group, LLC. He had a ten year career in the supermarket industry and then worked for 20+ years as a retail industry consultant, achieving leadership positions at Arthur Andersen, Capgemini and Accenture. Jim left his role as an Executive Partner at Accenture to found the Stores Consulting Group in 2009. He is recognized as a retail operations expert and has been a featured speaker at NRF, FMI, and GMA shows on numerous industry topics. Jim has an MBA from Rutgers University.

Over 30 years in retail across roles at Wegmans Food Markets and CVS Health, consulting firms including Arthur Andersen/Senn Delaney and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and data analytics vendors Sysrepublic and Profitect. Frequent industry speaker on loss prevention and technology integration, published and quoted widely on risk containment and profit improvement. MBA, Alfred University.

Greg is a Director with the Stores Consulting Group, LLC. He has over ten years of experience as a retail industry consultant with Arthur Andersen and Capgemini. In addition, he has 15 years of grocery retail industry experience. Greg has led numerous grocery and perishable profit improvement programs, focusing on production planning, process improvement, and workforce management. Greg has BA degree in Finance from Cleveland State University.

Rich is a Director with the Stores Consulting Group. He has over 18 years of large consulting firm experience and 23 years of industry experience working with a large regional grocer in the northeast, where he was primarily focused on store process improvements and Workforce Management. Rich was the Director of Operational Engineering, responsible for all aspects of Workforce Management at a large grocer, prior to his most recent experience in consulting. His consulting experience has had him working with many of the largest retailers in the world to solve their most unproductive issues. Rich spent the last 8.5 years with Accenture leading their Global Workforce Management offering, delivering complex WFM implementations. Rich graduated from the New School for Social Research with a BS in Human Resource Management. Rich recently retired from the US Air Force as a Lt. Col. with over 28 years of service flying LC-130H aircraft in the polar regions of the world.

Mike Connolly is a Managing Consultant with the Stores Consulting Group. He has over 40 years of retail operational experience and management and over five years experience working as a consultant with retailers across the United States. Mike has proven executive ability to combine business concentrated strategic procedures with client focused initiatives. He has extensive knowledge on all areas of store operations and management.

Martin Reeser leads the AI-Enabled Retail Operations practice at tSCG, helping grocery and food retail operators close the gap between the technology they have invested in and the store-level results they expected. Prior to tSCG, Marty served as Global VP of Retail Operations at Whole Foods Market (Amazon). He also served as RVP at gopuff, driving hypergrowth for e-com micro-fulfillment centers through the height of the pandemic. Marty served many of the Top 50 US food retailers with Deloitte’s Retail & Consumer Practice, by putting into practice, what he learned by owning and operating a multi-unit supermarket business.

Zac is a Managing Consultant with The Stores Consulting Group. Before joining tSCG, he spent 10 years in field and store-level roles with Dick’s Sporting Goods, Aldi, and Target. Since then, he has led Production Planning implementation projects on most of the leading software platforms on the market, including tSCG’s own Production Planning tool. In addition to Production Planning rollouts, he has led numerous Fresh foundational programs that help retailers build the operational and data groundwork needed to get the full return on their technology investment.

Ed is a Managing Consultant with the Stores Consulting Group. He has over 35 years of proven retail leadership at the Kroger Company, including Director of Shrink Management at Corporate with responsibilities for Shrink Management, DSD, SBT and process improvement in over 20 Kroger Divisions encompassing 2700 plus stores.

Tommy Bohn is a Senior Consultant with the Stores Consulting Group. He has several years of experience in management consulting, helping clients solve some of their most complex problems, navigating the challenges of change management, and implementing sustainable practices. His project involvement includes software implementations, fresh item management, and process improvements. Tommy has a BS in Business Administration from The Ohio State University and an MBA in Organizational Leadership from Youngstown State University.

Jeanie Burningham has extensive and diversified experience in retail store operations, regional and corporate management, and complex project management. She also has systems development and implementation experience with POS option settings, PLU standards and management security settings. She has experience working in corporate, field and store operations positions in many capacities. She is a proven leader with the ability to identify and implement change strategies, establish cultural changes and work with all levels of the business to reach a cohesive outcome.

Cary Gray is a Senior Consultant with the Stores Consulting Group. His experience includes 20 years of Retail Loss Prevention, Asset Protection & Safety. He is accomplished in DSD Receiving, Production Planning, Transaction Monitoring, LP Management, and Access Control. Cary’s prior experience also includes serving as a Law Enforcement Officer.

Maiti Keen is a Senior Consultant and Industrial Engineer with the Stores Consulting Group. She has led initiatives in new technology implementation, labor improvements, scheduling, process improvement, operation design and layout, and more. Maiti’s experience spans from commissary to all areas in the retail environment, with an emphasis on Front End operations. Maiti also leads outreach initiatives to recruit and develop new engineering talent. In addition to retail, she has experience in transportation and logistics, robotics, manufacturing, and installation services.

Michael Little is a Senior Consultant at the Stores Consulting Group (tSCG) with deep expertise in retail operations, store leadership, and enterprise transformation. Leveraging extensive hands-on experience in store execution and perishable department management, he specializes in rapid operational diagnostics, process standardization, and labor optimization models. Michael partners closely with client leadership to eliminate operational friction, enhance productivity, and deliver sustainable, measurable profit improvements.

Kyleigh Zakroski is a Senior Consultant and Industrial Engineer (B.S., University of Pittsburgh) specializing in data collection and analysis. Her experience spans shrink reduction, fresh production, and new technology implementation in retail store environments. She is focused on turning operational data into actionable improvements that drive measurable business results.