I'm a specialist
Move through the cascade — from RGI's Level 1 course to Advanced Specialist and a standing Community of Practice.
Enter →I'm a grocer
See how your pricing and labor are really performing — and join a community of independent grocers working the same problems.
Enter →Our mission
Rural independent grocery stores are closing at a rate that will leave a generation of towns without a place to buy food. Rural Transition Academy trains the people who can change that — the specialists who walk alongside grocers, and the grocers themselves.
The approach
Resilience is built in the everyday decisions — pricing, product assortment, and where the labor goes. A store that offers what no one else can becomes irreplaceable.
A successful transition isn't a document written at the end. We bake the recipe for one into the daily mindset of operating a strong store.
How many leaders does it take? A lot — and local connections make the strongest networks.
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