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.
Census UK Open Census Data First off, congratulations to Jeni Tennison OBE and Keith Dugmore MBE on their gongs for services to Open Data.
Our Team A year in and I’m still being the Customer The move from corporate life to helping build a start-up business is not insignificant – but what a year it’s been!
Market Visits New Destination Format Tesco combines High Street feel with Supermarket experience There is much to be said for Tesco's new approach to out of town shopping.
Open Data A Big breakthrough for Open Data – detailed House Price Paid data Yesterday the Land Registry made, in my view, the most significant Open Data announcement for four years.
GeoData When the Foundations Keep Shifting – Geolytix Town Boundaries One of, maybe the, biggest headaches working with reference data is change. Houses get built, roads are widened, people die and babies are born.
Open Data The Languages of London I’m working on a couple of projects where Culture/Ethnicity/Language are pretty high up the ‘important stuff we have to consider’ list.
Open Data Why Open Data leads to Higher Quality Data We are often told Geolytix are foolish to ‘give away’ data we have created, especially when we know we could license that data for good money.
Open Data UK Census Pack – Open Data For the last couple of weeks at Geolytix we’ve been eager little data bunnies processing the detailed English, Welsh and Northern Irish Census Data.
Open Data Open Data Census 2011 Pack The decennial censuses of the United Kingdom cost our country ~£500,000,000 and is the biggest, most expensive to collect and most important set of Open Data that exists.
