How are you sorting your Retainers and could you just use /itemsort ?

/itemsort (or /isort) was introduced in 2.1, here are the notes http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...7af43f3c43828a

Some people came up with some nice macros on REddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ouryinventory/