Dennis Bradbury

Grocery Store Operator with 20+ years of experience of growing sales, increasing profits, and developing and coaching teams. Passionate about driving customer experience and working with the community, schools, and charity groups to increase engagement between stores and communities. Won the award for most improved shrink while in management capacity. Increased social media engagement by over 200% while increasing sales by 8% YOY (on a budget of 4% increase). Won several awards for different corporate events and challenges. Organized and executed No Frills involvement in the Hazel McCallion Walk for Health which had every store in Mississauga participate.

Dennis’ No Frills (October 2021- Present)- Franchisee

• Improved store conditions, MCM presence, social media following and impact, OSAT score, sales, trading margin, departmental standards, community outreach, and most recently, usage of Mgt tool and control brand sales.

• Sales growth and trading margin well above budgeted objectives.

• Successfully completion of all internal and external audits to a high-standard.

Loblaw Companies Limited- Franchisee Candidate Readiness Program (July 2017- September 2021)

Store Development Team

• Responsible for executing planograms, shelf adjustments, coaching, and leading team whenever possible.

Fresh Team

• Helped at store level implementing fresh planograms and setting up new displays

• Worked with store staff to improve labour efficiency, lower shrink, and improve gross profit in Fresh departments

• Trained store members on the transition to Fresh Perpetual inventory, the inventory count process and the expectations moving forward.

Front End Module

• Trained in Cash office and all front-end functions maintaining high levels of organizational standards and customer service.

NF Operational Planning and Support

• Responded to emails from stores and reached out to category for an appropriate response in a timely manner

• Worked with the produce team to create produce merch plans for seasonal changes and upcoming renovations.

Mentorship- Acton No Frills

• Assisted in training the new meat designate and bakery department lead.

• Received additional bookkeeper and scheduling training.

Mentorship- No Frills (Creditview)

• Planned and executed directives for an efficient store closure.

• Assisted with maintaining four-wall accountability within the store and presenting a well conditioned store in the event of a closure.

• Responsible for the inventory levels of the Dairy, Grocery, Frozen, Deli and HABA departments once IPFR was turned off.

• Received additional reporting training from experienced and award-winning franchisee

Mentorship- No Frills (Eglinton)

• Assisted with the preparation for the FACT audit and inventory count.

• Continued focus on four wall accountability. Received hands-on training on PC Express.

• Continue to support the store through Covid-19 pandemicwherever possible.

• Implemented the Beer program into the store

No Frills (McLaughlin) -(April 2008- July 2017) 

Night Crew Chief

• Organized tasks that needed to be completed and delegated among staff

• Ensured merchandising standards and presentation standards throughout the store for store opening

Meat Designate

• Identifying shrink problems within the department and eradicating those problems to achieve lower shrink

• Identifying high GP and/or Sales items and merchandise accordingly to increase sales/GP

Grocery/Store Management Team

• Completed all of the sales planners and executed weekly planograms for the department

• Delegated employee tasks and touched base with alldepartmental heads and identified any issues within the store that may require attention within the “four wall” business

• Trained and mentored employees

No Frills (Mavis) (1999- 2002)

Dairy/Grocery Clerk (Part-time)

• Primarily managed the dairy department in the evenings and maintained operational standards

Humber College Police Foundations

York University Religious Studies and History