Merchandising Expert Witnesses

Business Operations, Clothing/Apparel - Retail Operations, Stores, Merchandising, Retail Management, Retail Store Safety, Retail Operating Policy, Slips, Falls, Grocery, Retail Displays, Retail Property, Merchandise Packaging

• Gary White is an expert in store operations, safe store conditions, safe merchandising, and safe environments for customers and employees. He has represented plaintiff and defense. • In his leadership roles, he has trained store safety, hired safety managers, and approved store inspection policies to be implemented in retail stores. • As a retail executive, Mr. White has approved the building of over 900 stores and reviewed the capital expenditure needs for existing stores to repair or replace in-store equipment as needed. • As a store operations trainer, he has trained hundreds of managers to inspect and correct issues discovered in stores and to keep the store safe. • As an expert witness, Mr. White has reviewed dozens of cases, written opinions, testified for defendants and plaintiffs, and represented many different local and national retailers.

Oil and Gas, Business Operations - Convenience Stores, Retail, Franchising, Mystery Shopping, Retail Gas/Motor Fuel Operations, Customer Service, Contracting, Merchandising, Category Management, Operations Management, Food Safety, Age-restricted

Mr. Ritenour is a veteran of Convenience Store and Retail Petroleum Industry since 1973. Additionally, he is a testifying witness with experience drafting expert reports, research and providing testimony for c-store, franchise and retail petroleum motor fuel litigation. Russ’ knowledge and over forty years of experience effectively managing cross-functional domestic and global teams, programs, and processes at large corporations in both the retail petroleum and convenience retailing industry allow him to create expert reports and work with a litigation team. Russ’ expert experience, comprehensive knowledge and highly diversified career in the convenience store and retail petroleum industry includes corporate operations, management and leadership roles at many levels within the industries. His expertise includes, corporate operational management, franchising and franchise management, category management, food safety, customer and consumer experience management, mystery shopping, sur...

Slip Trip & Fall, Safety - Over 400 cases offering opinion reports , 47 State , retail accidents, store standard of care, slip and fall, trip and fall, display safety, merchandising, retail liability, ada regulations, product liability, design standard, retail liability, customer accidents, retail safety, product safety

Top 40 Retail Industry Leader per VMSD magazine Top 50 Retail Design Firm per VMSD Design awards for Store Design, Display Design, Marketing Licensing and Branding expertise (Target and Walmart Brands) Former Contributing Editor Display Design Ideas Former Juror Design Contest Store of the Future Design Firm Globalshop Industry Show Guest Speaker Trade Shows, Industry Conferences CV available www.retail-expert-witness com