Retail Time Management: Stop Juggling Everything and Finally Get Ahead!

Retail Time Management: Stop Juggling Everything and Finally Get Ahead!

May 21, 2026 · 22 min · Episode 303

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Catherine Erdly discusses time management strategies for independent retail business owners to help them overcome overwhelm and improve productivity.

Do you ever feel like you're doing everything right, yet somehow still falling behind? If you run an independent retail business, you are not imagining things. Between buying stock, managing your team, keeping up with your marketing, handling customer service, and everything else that lands on your desk — the sheer volume of what your job involves would overwhelm anyone. This is not a time management failure. It is simply the reality of running a retail business single-handedly. But there is a question underneath all of this that most retailers never stop to ask, and it is the one that changes everything. Hi, I'm retail strategist and founder of Resilient Retail Club , Catherine Erdly . And in this episode of the Resilient Retail Game Plan , I'm unpacking the framework I use with my one-to-one clients in my Retail by Design programme — a step-by-step approach to understanding how you're really spending your time, building a structure that actually works, and protecting the focused work hours that move your business forward. If you have been telling yourself for months that you will start that project "when things slow down" — this episode is for you. I work with clients who have…

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