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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.

Published 27th August 2020 • Tags mapp, covid-19
Geolytix Retail Points - August 2020 - Including UK coverage of Spar

As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, many supermarket store openings and closures for this quarter were delayed.

Published 25th August 2020 • Tags open-data
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.

Published 10th August 2020 • Tags covid-19, geodata, team-thoughts
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.

Published 29th July 2020 • Tags covid-19
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.

Published 22nd July 2020 • Tags team-thoughts
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.

Published 8th July 2020 • Tags covid-19, mobility, geodata
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?

Published 29th June 2020 • Tags covid-19, geodata, mobility
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.

Published 19th June 2020 • Tags covid-19
Geolytix UK Postal

"For speed and certainty always use a postal district number on your letters and notepaper"

Published 9th June 2020 • Tags geodata
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.

Published 29th May 2020 • Tags covid-19
Geolytix UK : Retail Place Boundaries

Geolytix Retail Places is the ultimate product for profiling, describing and modelling UK retail. The data set currently has 21,942 identified areas of retail reaching from City Centres to parades of 3 units. It continues to be a popular and established product since it's very first release in 2012.

Published 22nd May 2020 • Tags geodata
Retail Points - Spar and Dunnes in Northern Ireland

We are releasing the 16th version of our open Retail Points data. For this update we have included Spar and Dunnes stores for Northern Ireland.

Published 17th May 2020 • Tags open-data
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.

Published 27th March 2020 • Tags covid-19, team-thoughts
COVID-19, Community Spirit, Colleague Support and Candy

It’s not often that I get involved in blogs for Geolytix and you won’t hear much from me in the future but I thought I would take the opportunity to write one on this occasion. It's mainly to promote the difference that an enjoyable working environment & team can make to the wellbeing of its people.

Published 19th March 2020 • Tags covid-19, our-team
Geolytix in The House. Helping the Co-op support Wellbeing in the Community

On Tuesday Blair, Dan and Jasmin attended the parliamentary launch of the Co-op Community Wellbeing Index at the House of Commons. Geolytix worked in partnership with the Co-op to develop this index which aims to quantify the wellbeing of communities.

Published 6th March 2020 • Tags our-team, geodata
Physical Retailing Post Epidemic: Standing on a New Crossroad

COVID-19, more commonly known as Coronavirus, is a global epidemic potentially heading towards becoming a pandemic. It is having an effect on retailing; Geolytix China have looked at the impacts on their country's retail sector.

Published 26th February 2020 • Tags covid-19
Life as an Apprentice

Geolytix were looking for their first apprentice. Becca was looking for an alternative route to university.

Published 17th February 2020 • Tags our-team
Chocolat: At home and abroad!

Valentine's is a peak in the chocolate gift-giving season (Xmas-through-Easter) and even Hotel Chocolat’s “Chocolate Metropolis” in Leeds was beginning to run out!

Published 14th February 2020 • Tags market-visits
Aldi in Shanghai

Aldi opened it's first store in China on the 7th June 2019 in Shanghai after it launched an e-commerce platform on Alibaba’s Tmall Global in April 2017.

Published 10th February 2020 • Tags market-visits
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?

Published 3rd February 2020 • Tags team-thoughts
UK Public Transport

Geolytix produce multiple GeoData packs which are updated annually and available as a purchased product or use within our services work. Public Transport is vital data when making location-based decisions.

Published 31st January 2020 • Tags geodata
European Census and Indices

Census data is a powerful source of statistics able to describe a population. The data can be complex, messy, expensive, difficult to access and vary from country. Geolytix has taken the time to remove this hassle and make the data accessible, functional and open.

Published 27th January 2020 • Tags census, geodata, open-data
UK Supermarket Retail Points

The latest release of the GEOLYTIX open Retail Points data set with the most recent openings and closures captured.

Published 24th January 2020 • Tags open-data
When SOLOMO met ME and things got physical.

What on earth does SOLOMOME mean and why should you care?

Published 20th January 2020 • Tags 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.

Published 26th November 2019 • Tags team-thoughts
Add search to your Ghost blog

A couple of weeks ago, roughly around the time when the Prime Minister of the UK promised to do the very same to himself, we finally ditched Wordpress.

Published 21st November 2019 • Tags
GEOLYTIX Supermarket Retail Points

The collective market share of the ‘Big Four’ supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons) has fallen to 62.7%.

Published 18th November 2019 • Tags open-data
Geolytix Down Under

Geolytix is officially open for business in Melbourne, Australia!

Published 30th October 2019 • Tags our-team
India Retail Landscape… A decade on

How exciting to be back in India, and particularly Mumbai, after almost a decade away.

Published 30th October 2019 • Tags market-visits, team-thoughts
Geolytix is Small but Global

I’ve been following Geolytix with interest since it was founded back in 2012.

Published 28th October 2019 • Tags our-team, geodata
Paris Retail Landscape – First Impression

I was always intrigued by the breath-taking history and the industry-leading fashion Paris presents to the world.

Published 14th October 2019 • Tags market-visits
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.

Published 7th October 2019 • Tags team-thoughts
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.

Published 30th September 2019 • Tags geodata, 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.

Published 19th September 2019 • Tags team-thoughts
Unveiling SLA China (Society for Location Analysis, China)

Twenty-four previous, current, future location planners from around the globe gathered on Wednesday 11th Sept 2019 in Xin Tian Di, Shanghai, and unveiled our own new communities – Society for Location Analysis, China.

Published 12th September 2019 • Tags our-team
Blackwell’s and the book buying experience

A well-stocked bookshop, with the scent of new paper and an adventure on every shelf, has been a staple of the British high street for hundreds of years.

Published 9th September 2019 • Tags market-visits