Team Thoughts The changing retail landscape With more stores closing than opening in 2020, it is not surprising that UK high streets are left with empty retail units. Instead of leaving the spaces unused, developers are turning to new ways to use the space.
Team Thoughts International Women & GEOLYTIX To celebrate International Women's Day, I thought it would be a brilliant time to celebrate all the fantastic women in the GEOLYTIX team
Team Thoughts The Geography of Pokémon GO With the nation locked away, its not surprising we turned to the world of AR and VR. To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Pokémon, we delve into the phenomenon of Pokémon GO, and the impact on mobility and tourism alongside the growing presence of AR in the retail world.
Team Thoughts Playing to win: Board Game Cafés and the Communal Meeting Space The UK’s new indoor lifestyle has prompted a boom in the board game industry over the past year, building on past successes. Waiting to eat up this new demand are the country’s surviving board game cafés, provided we haven’t been too scared away from meeting up in person.
Team Thoughts How to reinvent retail spaces for a more sustainable future? The pandemic has accelerated the so-called Retail Armageddon and we are facing a dramatic oversupply of retail space in the UK. The repurposing of vacant or declining department stores, shopping centres and high streets will require creativity and imagination, but it will also require data.
Team Thoughts A 4-Month journey with Tesla: a change made on fuelling up Tesla reached record sales last year, narrowly missing its half a million target. And with Tesla's entry-level Model 3 sedans now being manufactured at the Shanghai Gigafactory, Tesla is staying on top of the Chinese electric-car sales leader board.
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.
Team Thoughts Featured Consistency Across Borders As retailers increasingly take a more regional or even global view of multi-channel strategy, the importance of defining and applying a consistent data and analytical approach across borders has also increased.
Our Team Featured Historic England - High Street Heritage Action Zones How can you use data to identify ‘similar’ locations? For retailers, looking for areas similar to those with high performing stores, this may be a simple enough task. Counts of surrounding population, competition and demographic data lend themselves well to similarity modelling.
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.
Team Thoughts Featured Retail Trend in Mainland China - 2019 Review & Outlook Over the past three years, the top 10 consumer cities in mainland China witnessed the opening of 437 brand new shopping malls – an average increase of 43 malls in each city! And that hasn’t taken into account any reopening’s after upgrading or redevelopment.
COVID-19 Retail Network Planners – Your World Needs You. Retail powers our modern world. The bars, the shops, the gyms, the post offices, the coffee shops, the estate agents, the bookies, the car showrooms, the petrol stations, the pharmacists. Everything.
Team Thoughts Augmented Reality in the Physical Retail Space The high street is in danger, and some stores are turning to futuristic technologies to help stave off the likes of Amazon and JD.com. But what exactly is possible, and where could it lead us?
Team Thoughts When SOLOMO met ME and things got physical. What on earth does SOLOMOME mean and why should you care?
Team Thoughts The Workplace Revolution The workplace revolution has prompted a change in the office landscape. Co-working spaces have fast become the popular solution.
Market Visits India Retail Landscape… A decade on How exciting to be back in India, and particularly Mumbai, after almost a decade away.
Team Thoughts My Theory on How the Pie Chart was Invented? And what that tells us about innovation. The pie chart was invented by a Bastille-storming, money-forging, dueller-libelling, spying, blundering, libertine and jailbird. But no one has figured out how and why.
GeoData The Added Value of Banking Data Across the numerous sectors and markets we support and operate in there is one common theme that keeps arising… and don’t worry it’s not Brexit.
Team Thoughts The Politics of Palm Oil Having just landed back, I intended to write a blog about Malaysian retail from my recent trip. But some things are more important.
Team Thoughts How a fruit and veg supplier won my heart I am a reluctant online shopper. I enjoy the actual shopping experience – choosing goods there and then and getting them immediately without expected delivery time.
Team Thoughts One More Jigsaw Piece to Fit into Suning’s Smart Retail Empire This time it is Carrefour China…
Team Thoughts From Shopping to Dining, Entertaining & Social Networking The Role Transition of a Retail Venue in Chinese Daily Life
Team Thoughts Shanghai – A Flagship City From a fishing village in the 11th Century, to the world’s busiest port today, Shanghai has long been synonymous with international trade and commerce.
Team Thoughts Chinese Retailers Entering the UK It’s been just over a year since I left China to join Geolytix, back in the UK.
