COVID-19 Freedom Day has been and gone, but have people been enjoying their freedom in London? We look at how London activity levels have recovered since Freedom Day on July 19th 2021.
COVID-19 Conducting international business from your own home Luke has been based in Japan for 16 years, with nearly 4 of those at Geolytix. He supports our customers in the huge and fast-changing APAC region applying over 20 years of experience in network planning for a wide-range of leading retailers and brands.
COVID-19 The Wimbledon Effect Wimbledon was back this year, after taking a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic - the first time the tournament hasn't been held since the Second World War. This year we could appreciate 'The Wimbeldon Effect' from another aspect - the boost in activity levels.
COVID-19 Tokyo Olympics - Summer in the City Luke, our business development director based in Japan discusses the impact COVID has had on the largest and most complex sporting event in the world.
COVID-19 Has Yorkshire bounced back? The impact of the opening of outdoor seating on mobility levels in Yorkshire, compared to pre-COVID (2019) and lockdown (January - April 2021).
COVID-19 Office Place Recovery Through the last 15 months, we have been using mobility data and applying it within 8,000 of our Retail Place boundaries to produce a weekly read on activity levels across the UK.
COVID-19 London has bounced back The impact of the opening of outdoor seating on mobility levels in London, compared to pre-COVID (2019) and lockdown (January-April 2021)
COVID-19 Vaccination journey With vaccinations now leading the daily news coverage of COVID-19, I decided to focus on some positive data, a better alternative to reading the 'worsening news'. Using the XYZ framework which underpins MAPP, we have built an open app that visualises vaccination rates across the world.
COVID-19 Australia: WFH to a COVID safe workplace. We look at the effect 2020 has played on the workforce and employment patterns around Australia, a country on its journey out of lockdown.
COVID-19 Will the most walked path be the online high-street in 2021? Covid-19 and lockdowns in particular have affected how the UK is shopping, predominately a surge in online shopping. Once lockdown is lifted, will we be itching to get back to the high-street or will online shopping continue to rise in popularity?
COVID-19 Groundhog Day 2021 and the UK woke up in another lockdown. We're interested to see how the retail industry is handling a second lockdown; our data already indicates some similarities with last lockdown. Will a preparedness for lockdown have any impact this time round?
COVID-19 Featured A bit more help than just the Milkman 2020 was a year we will never forget and it changed the way we socially interacted as a nation. The food industry was significantly impacted, which opened doors for an old British favourite...the milkman.
COVID-19 Featured Life After Lockdown Anecdotally, town and city centres have been busy since England Lockdown 2 ended last Wednesday. We’ve been busy processing up mobility data from Saturday to see what it tells us about the 18,000 Retail Places we monitor.
COVID-19 Featured Did Somebody Say…It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas… Wednesday marked the end of England’s four-week Lockdown II. Many retailers will now be looking to salvage what they can following a tumultuous year. The run-up to Christmas is always a condensed & critical period but in 2020 this is exacerbated. So, what can we expect during these next three weeks?
COVID-19 Featured Harnessing Mobility Data in Thailand While Thailand has been successful at managing the Coronavirus pandemic the economic toll has been high with a sharp decline in international tourist arrivals and falling private investment leading to a forecasted -7.3% contraction of GDP in 2020.
COVID-19 Featured Barnsley – the future looks bright for a town with real heart and soul Across the country, 2020 has been challenging in a way that none of us expected it to be. Every village, town and city across the country has its own story of how the year has unfolded, and the impacts of COVID-19 have been felt.
COVID-19 Featured The Wales Firebreak The Wales Firebreak that came into effect on 23rd October attracted a great deal of media attention last week, with photographs of cordoned off ‘non-essential’ aisles a regular feature. But has the Wales Firebreak worked in terms of reducing activity?
COVID-19 Featured Tiers and Tears Since areas of the UK began entering local lockdowns in September, we have assembled these boundaries as a useful resource to track what is going on.
MAPP The road to recovery: monitoring UK Retail Recovery using MAPP Town centres, high streets, retail parks & shopping centres across the UK are experiencing varying rates of retail recovery as lockdown eases.
COVID-19 Featured How can data help our tourist towns recover? We’ve been pondering this question at Geolytix. Here in our local state of Victoria, Australia, our tourist towns have been hit by the double whammy of horrific bushfires followed by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
COVID-19 The office, to be or not to be? Or is the real question... where? Like many an office biscuit tin, ours is sadly on a career break.
COVID-19 Featured PRESS RELEASE: Geolytix Retail Recovery Index There seems to be a broad consensus on top-level recovery rates in the UK as lockdown eases. But every city, town, village, shopping centre, retail park and local parade has its own story.
COVID-19 Featured Retail Recovery - Que Sera Sera? We’re often asked what a good level of forecast accuracy looks like. The answer is always: it depends. Some things are hard to forecast. Really hard. Even harder than convenience store turnover. Like, will things ever return to normal?
COVID-19 Featured COVID-19 and the rise of Click & Collect I didn’t order anything in the first 10 weeks of lockdown, conscious that I didn’t want to pull a delivery worker out if it wasn’t an essential visit.
COVID-19 Tokyo’s Covid-19 Experience – What Happens Next? Tokyo today is likely to join the rest of Japan in having the coronavirus “State of Emergency” lifted.
