Market Visits Smiles and Giggles = Smiggle We’re excited to post our first guest blog. Angela shares her take on one of the new retailers to hit the UK…
Our Team Happy New Year! So we have survived our first work week of 2017 – even if it was only 4 days.
Market Visits The Dining Club – IKEA “It doesn’t matter what you make, it’s the people that are the best ingredients.”
Open Data Retail Points Update - October 2016 Since the last release of Retail Points the Netto and Sainsburys joint venture trial has ended resulting in closure of all 16 stores.
Market Visits Veggie Pret – Not just for Veggie’s During the month of June Pret A Manger opened a pop-up vegetarian store – not a ‘new concept store’, they acknowledged.
Our Team Location Planning and Data Analytics firm Geolytix win Queen’s Award for Enterprise London-based Geolytix have today won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for creating innovative spatial algorithms that help retailers profitably attract and serve customers in a complex multi-channel world.
Open Data Open Supermarkets now known as Retail Points Today sees the release of the latest instalment of Open Supermarkets, we have now renamed this Retail Points.
Our Team Samantha’s Week One – Back to Maps… It’s been a buzz so far! I’ve been reminded of the power of data and a map together. Once combined questions that seemed unanswerable are suddenly simple.
Market Visits Iceland Food Warehouse – Old Kent Road It has been a hot topic in the industry for a while that the discounters are continuing to grow in popularity and share of market spend.
Open Data Open Supermarkets – Now including Co-op Societies and Iceland With every release of the open supermarkets Geolytix aim to improve and build on the previous version.
Market Visits The air is better up here – Trampoline parks Trampoline parks seem to be taking the UK by storm, they are opening all over. So Geolytix decided to have a team afternoon at Oxygen Free Jumping in Acton.
Market Visits Good Evenings at Pret a Manger In April of this year when Pret a Manger on The Strand introduced Good Evenings it went against the definition of their name.
GeoData Retail Places – 2015 Update If you need a product that provides an accurate retail background to support your decision making, this is it.
Market Visits Shop in shop: The Google Shop If you go down to Tottenham Court Road today you’re sure of a big surprise. Those familiar Google colours have come down to earth at the Currys PC World store.
Open Data Open Supermarkets Locations The latest updated open supermarkets is now available. A total of 349 stores have been added since the previous release. This is a mixture of new stores and capturing missing stores from the dataset. Highlights of the release: * 43 Tesco closures * 10 Morrison closures * 15 new Asda PFS * 349 stores
GeoData UK Universities With over 2.2 million students currently studying (and spending) in the UK it pays to know where they are.
Market Visits Home of Smart Shopping I’m going to be honest I never went to a Netto when they were previously around in the UK during my school years.
Open Data Open Supermarket Locations – now includes the Co-operative Group Version 4 of open supermarkets is now available with the following notable additions to its predecessor:
Market Visits 1000th Holland and Barrett store At a time when high street stores are still at risk of closure following the turbulent economic climate of recent years, what is Holland & Barrett’s secret?
Open Data Open Supermarket Locations A drive or walk round any suburb or city nowadays seems to reveal at least one recently opened supermarket.
Open Data Workplace Data Release The world is getting more mobile and connected. As analysts we need to go beyond knowing what types of people sleep where.
Market Visits The Latest Phenomenon: Pop-Up Shops Flash retailing has become a popular concept. This is a new breed of pop-up shops, far from the tacky, messy seasonal shops that appear around a festive holiday.
Market Visits Food is the Focus and the new Warehouse style Morrisons store Morrisons recently opened a refreshingly innovative store that encourages good old fashioned food shopping in a clear yet theatrical fashion.
