McMillan|Doolittle, LLP is a Chicago based retail consulting firm whose partners are both experts and experienced executives in their areas of specialization. Why are we so unique in the field of retail consulting? We provide our clients:

• Partner driven, seasoned and experienced team. We are uniquely qualified to develop, assess, and implement new retail concepts for retailers and suppliers. Our business is centered on retail, and has been for over 20 years. Our senior team is deeply skilled and has an average of over twenty years of real world experience in the retail industry, as well as over 15 years of consulting experience.
• Proven process for developing and implementing actionable and successful retail strategies. Our consulting practice touches every facet of retailing, including operations, service, merchandise, real estate, systems, culture, organization, presentation, multi-channel, and design. Our retail expertise, our extensive experience in retail strategy development, our understanding of consumer trends, all translates into the ability to provide candid, insightful perspectives and actionable recommendations.
• Successful retail concept development experience. Our retail concept development team and our start up team have conducted numerous strategic planning, concept development, and implementation projects. We clearly understand the challenges, brand positionings, cost structures, business models and resource capabilities and requirements in developing and implementing successful new retail concepts.
• Process built upon ownership. We partner with our clients using a team process. In the end, we want to transfer our retailing knowledge to the client team to ensure they will be able to successfully execute the retail concept and/or retail performance improvements.

McMillanDoolittle partners are objective outsiders who are passionate about retailing. Our process is partner driven and consumer centric. We are grounded in retail experience and committed to developing innovative solutions for our clients. We are strategic thinkers and retailing thought leaders. We know of no other retail consulting firm which can provide such a high level of experience, expertise, commitment and process.