For · Retail, Franchise & Co-ops
Corporate-grade systems, translated for your store.
Lexi Holder spent years on the corporate side of the systems your brand hands down; Praxis puts that experience on your side of the table.
Five questions arrive before the call.
Has Praxis worked with franchise and co-op retail before?
The credential, in one paragraphYes. At CCA Global Partners, a shared-services purchasing cooperative whose brands include flooring retail franchises, Lexi Holder led business intelligence delivery supporting more than 700 independent business owners across the United States and Canada, and she was the first female leader in IT there. Praxis brings that experience to one store at a time.
What are retail, franchise, and co-op owners up against?
The store is excellent at retail. The stack came from somewhere else. Four patterns follow that stack into the store.
Each has a fix that fits a single store.
Corporate systems, handed down untranslated
The brand or co-op picks the platform and corporate runs the rollout. The store gets logins, a webinar recording, and a help line that answers in jargon. Making it fit your counter was nobody’s job until now.
POS, inventory, and e-commerce, each keeping its own truth
The register says one thing, the stockroom count says another, and the online store sells what neither can confirm. Reconciling them by hand becomes a nightly chore that grows with every sale.
Member portals and rebate data that expect an analyst
The co-op’s reports carry real money, and reading them takes tools and time the store does not have. Rebates, group pricing, and member dashboards only pay off when someone turns them into decisions.
Brand mandates on one side, the sales floor on the other
The brand requires a platform by quarter end. The floor needs scheduling, restocking, and a checkout line that moves. Both are legitimate, and the owner is the only person expected to hold both, in a second language.
What did Lexi build at cooperative scale?
CCA Global Partners is a shared-services purchasing cooperative whose brands include flooring retail franchises. Lexi led business intelligence delivery there. The work, and what it means for one store.
She delivered the corporate side of the handoff
At CCA she led business intelligence delivery, the member-facing reporting a cooperative ships to its independent owners. She knows how those systems get built, why they behave the way they do, and where the store-level value hides.
She led the overhaul of member-facing BI technology
When the cooperative’s reporting needed rebuilding, she led the overhaul. Success meant hundreds of independent owners keeping their numbers usable through a platform change, in language they could act on.
She was the first female leader in IT there
She says it that way herself, and it fits how she works: technical authority earned by explaining things until they make sense.
Now, the same job for one store
Praxis takes what worked at cooperative scale and sizes it for one store: which systems, in what order, at the pace one owner can absorb. Her full background is on the About page.
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The counter is where the systems show up
Inventory, vendors, promotions, and the point of sale all meet at the counter. Praxis starts with how a sale moves through your shop, then makes the systems keep up with your people.
What does a right-sized stack look like for one store?
Fewer tools, connected once, used by everyone. Every engagement is tailored; these are the moves it is built from.
One connected stack
POS, inventory, e-commerce, and accounting mapped on one page, the overlap cut, and the keepers connected so a sale posts everywhere once.
[ The full role → ]Adoption and training
A system only earns its subscription when your people use it. Lexi trains at the store’s pace, on the floor’s terms, until the new way is the easy way.
[ How it works → ]Ongoing oversight
Vendors held to the plan, the risk register re-scored as things change, and KPIs read at baseline, three, and six months.
[ Virtual CIO → ]Engagements start at $3,500. The discovery hour is free, and the five-question agenda arrives before the call.
What store owners ask
Can Praxis help with the systems my brand or co-op hands down?
Yes. Corporate-grade platforms usually arrive with corporate-grade assumptions: an IT department, a training team, hours you do not have. Lexi spent years on the corporate side of that handoff, so she translates the mandate into plain English, sets up what the store needs, and trains your people until they use it.
My POS, inventory, and e-commerce tools do not talk to each other. Is that fixable?
Usually, yes. Most stores accumulate systems one urgent purchase at a time, and the gaps between them get filled with rekeying and spreadsheets. Lexi maps what you have, keeps the tools that earn their subscription, and connects them so a sale updates inventory, accounting, and the storefront without a second entry.
Does Praxis specialize in retail?
Praxis works across industries, and retail, franchise, and cooperative businesses are familiar ground from Lexi’s years at CCA Global Partners. The method stays the same in every industry: map how the business runs, rank the risks with the owner, then build the stack the business is ready for.
What does it cost for a single store?
The discovery hour is free, and the five-question agenda arrives before the call. Engagements start at $3,500, larger system builds run higher by tier, and every proposal is priced before you commit. KPIs are set at baseline and measured at three and six months, so the spend stays accountable.
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Last updated August 18, 2026