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    • Photo of Tokyo’s Covid-19 Experience – What Happens Next?

      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 international

    • Photo of Geolytix UK : Retail Place Boundaries

      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

    • Photo of Retail Points - Spar and Dunnes in Northern Ireland

      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

    • Photo of Retail Network Planners – Your World Needs You.

      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 team-thoughts

    • Photo of COVID-19, Community Spirit, Colleague Support and Candy

      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 our-team

    • Photo of Geolytix in The House. Helping the Co-op support Wellbeing in the Community

      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

    • Photo of Physical Retailing Post Epidemic: Standing on a New Crossroad

      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 international

    • Photo of Life as an Apprentice

      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

    • Photo of Chocolat: At home and abroad!

      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

    • Photo of Aldi in Shanghai

      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

    • Photo of Augmented Reality in the Physical Retail Space

      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

    • Photo of UK Public Transport

      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

    • Photo of European Census and Indices

      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

    • Photo of UK Supermarket Retail Points

      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

    • Photo of When SOLOMO met ME and things got physical.

      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

    • Photo of The Workplace Revolution

      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

    • Photo of Add search to your Ghost blog

      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

    • Photo of GEOLYTIX Supermarket Retail Points

      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

    • Photo of Geolytix Down Under

      Geolytix Down Under

      Geolytix is officially open for business in Melbourne, Australia!

      Published 30th October 2019 • Tags our-team

    • Photo of India Retail Landscape… A decade on

      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

    • Photo of Geolytix is Small but Global

      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

    • Photo of Paris Retail Landscape – First Impression

      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

    • Photo of My Theory on How the Pie Chart was Invented? And what that tells us about innovation.

      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

    • Photo of The Added Value of Banking Data

      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

    • Photo of The Politics of Palm Oil

      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

    • Photo of Unveiling SLA China (Society for Location Analysis, China)

      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

    • Photo of Blackwell’s and the book buying experience

      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

    • Photo of Coming Out as a Part Timer

      Coming Out as a Part Timer

      Part time working doesn’t work for professional occupations, right?

      Published 19th August 2019 • Tags our-team

    • Photo of Machine Learning with spatial Big Data: How Uber helped us get there.

      Machine Learning with spatial Big Data: How Uber helped us get there.

      Sometimes we look for answers outside our cosy little GIS bubble. In this case we applied well-established information retrieval techniques to truly understand hyperlocal movement patterns in mobility data.

      Published 5th August 2019 • Tags geodata, ai

    • Photo of How a fruit and veg supplier won my heart

      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.

      Published 22nd July 2019 • Tags team-thoughts, market-visits

    • Photo of Ways to do your grocery in Shanghai

      Ways to do your grocery in Shanghai

      I am a native of Shanghai.

      Published 18th July 2019 • Tags team-thoughts

    • Photo of Inferring Traffic Counts from Network Centrality

      Inferring Traffic Counts from Network Centrality

      We were recently asked by a client to incorporate an element of traffic and road utilisation into the modelling of their network blueprint as they investigate opportunities to locate drive-thrus.

      Published 12th July 2019 • Tags geodata, ai

    • Photo of One More Jigsaw Piece to Fit into Suning’s Smart Retail Empire

      One More Jigsaw Piece to Fit into Suning’s Smart Retail Empire

      This time it is Carrefour China…

      Published 5th July 2019 • Tags team-thoughts

    • Photo of Lush and the war on plastic

      Lush and the war on plastic

      Until 12 months ago Lush wasn’t on my radar.

      Published 29th June 2019 • Tags market-visits

    • Photo of Geolytix in Dubai

      Geolytix in Dubai

      It has the aquarium, the waterfall, the ice-rink and of course the towering Burj Khalifa as a neighbour.

      Published 11th June 2019 • Tags market-visits

    • Photo of From Shopping to Dining, Entertaining & Social Networking

      From Shopping to Dining, Entertaining & Social Networking

      The Role Transition of a Retail Venue in Chinese Daily Life

      Published 20th March 2019 • Tags team-thoughts