Hi-I’m Peter Vogel. In my 40+ years of experience, mostly in the retail and wholesale sectors, I’ve learned a lot. In my heart, I’m a Merchandise Capitalist, I love to search for new products and the creative juice you get when you find them and figure out the best way to sell them! Most of my career was at a unique 10,000 sq ft specialty store in a college town focusing on Fashion, Gift and Home products for young at heart women. Other leadership roles were at a 20+store chain, Rickys NYC, and in store level management at Toys R Us.

In this next chapter I’m looking to help businesses improve their bottom line through small changes to merchandising and operations. This I call Detailed Thinking. My experience includes developing from scratch or partnering with others to refine existing systems. Systems related to most aspects of business operations including training strategies and materials, merchandising including display, planograms, marketing & advertising, store and stockroom layout, replenishment (single and multi-store) and other areas. Please contact me to discuss how fresh eyes may help increase your bottom line. Thanks for taking a look. Peter

Some things I’ve done:

OTB Open to buy planning structure for merchandise

Annual planning for budgeting of sales & expenditures

Non-merch supplies costs including freight

HR related: developed hiring and training strategies, including training materials and S-O-P’s Standard Operating Procedures

Full P&L responsibility

Lead buyer across all categories

Planned visual merchandising

Marketing, sales, and advertising-drove concepts and design for all advertising campaigns (TV, Radio and Print)

Analysis of Sales to Stock ratios at Corporate, Store and Department levels

Developed Corporate Systems for Replenishment

Managed Key vendor relationships

Project leader on conversion of new MIS/POS system for corporate and 20 stores

Inventory: en route, in warehouse

Returns processing systems