Team Thoughts The Future of Oxford Street: Strength to Strength or Fighting for Survival? London’s Oxford Street is one of the busiest shopping destinations in the world with a history stretching back well over 100 years.
Open Data Retail Points Update - May 2017 Not only has it been busy in the Geolytix office but as always in the turbulent world of food retail there having been many announcements over the past few months.
GeoData GEOLYTIX Point of Interest Data 2017 Location planning spans a wide range of industries from retail to the public sector. Complex decisions require a multitude of inputs, and that is where Geolytix’s Point of Interest (POI) data can be used.
Open Data Administrative Boundaries > OpenStreetMap Here at GEOLYTIX we believe that the best available administrative boundaries data should be open and easily accessible. We are a little vain in respect to our maps. Badly fitting boundaries should not be crossed out.
Team Thoughts We’re still telling our customers where to go – a year in the world of location planning and network strategy Whilst for many 2016 was heavily tainted by Brexit and Trump, for Geolytix it has been a year of establishing our European and Global Strategy.
Market Visits Fresh Trader: Can a wholesaler succeed on the high street? We welcome back Angela, our guest blogger, who shares her view on a different kind of grocery store…
Market Visits Birmingham New Street/Grand Central: A space fit for the 21st century On a fleeting visit to Birmingham I had some time to explore the redeveloped area at Grand Central/ New Street station.
Team Thoughts Fishnets, Honeycombs and Footballs – Better spatial models with hexagonal grids. I love the unique mathematical properties of hexagonal tiling for spatial analysis and the inherent possibility to create beautiful bi-variate hex maps.
Market Visits Bunnings first UK opening: An Aussie sausage sizzle in the snow The shake up of the UK DIY sector recently got underway in St Albans with the opening of the first UK Bunnings.
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
