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Thoughts, stories and ideas.
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Retail Network Planners – Your World Needs You.
27th March 2020
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.
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COVID-19, Community Spirit, Colleague Support and Candy
19th March 2020
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.
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Geolytix in The House. Helping the Co-op support Wellbeing in the Community
6th March 2020
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.
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Physical Retailing Post Epidemic: Standing on a New Crossroad
26th February 2020
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.
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Life as an Apprentice
17th February 2020
Geolytix were looking for their first apprentice. Becca was looking for an alternative route to university.
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Chocolat: At home and abroad!
14th February 2020
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!
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Aldi in Shanghai
10th February 2020
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.
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Augmented Reality in the Physical Retail Space
3rd February 2020
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?
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UK Public Transport
31st January 2020
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.
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European Census and Indices
27th January 2020
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.
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UK Supermarket Retail Points
24th January 2020
The latest release of the GEOLYTIX open Retail Points data set with the most recent openings and closures captured.
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When SOLOMO met ME and things got physical.
20th January 2020
What on earth does SOLOMOME mean and why should you care?
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The Workplace Revolution
26th November 2019
The workplace revolution has prompted a change in the office landscape. Co-working spaces have fast become the popular solution.
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Add search to your Ghost blog
21st November 2019
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.
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GEOLYTIX Supermarket Retail Points
18th November 2019
The collective market share of the ‘Big Four’ supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons) has fallen to 62.7%.
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Geolytix Down Under
30th October 2019
Geolytix is officially open for business in Melbourne, Australia!
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India Retail Landscape… A decade on
30th October 2019
How exciting to be back in India, and particularly Mumbai, after almost a decade away.
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Geolytix is Small but Global
28th October 2019
I’ve been following Geolytix with interest since it was founded back in 2012.
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Paris Retail Landscape – First Impression
14th October 2019
I was always intrigued by the breath-taking history and the industry-leading fashion Paris presents to the world.
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My Theory on How the Pie Chart was Invented? And what that tells us about innovation.
7th October 2019
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.
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The Added Value of Banking Data
30th September 2019
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.
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The Politics of Palm Oil
19th September 2019
Having just landed back, I intended to write a blog about Malaysian retail from my recent trip. But some things are more important.
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Unveiling SLA China (Society for Location Analysis, China)
12th September 2019
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.
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Blackwell’s and the book buying experience
9th September 2019
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.
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Coming Out as a Part Timer
19th August 2019
Part time working doesn’t work for professional occupations, right?
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Machine Learning with spatial Big Data: How Uber helped us get there.
5th August 2019
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.
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How a fruit and veg supplier won my heart
22nd July 2019
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.
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Inferring Traffic Counts from Network Centrality
12th July 2019
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.
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One More Jigsaw Piece to Fit into Suning’s Smart Retail Empire
5th July 2019
This time it is Carrefour China…
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Geolytix in Dubai
11th June 2019
It has the aquarium, the waterfall, the ice-rink and of course the towering Burj Khalifa as a neighbour.
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From Shopping to Dining, Entertaining & Social Networking
20th March 2019
The Role Transition of a Retail Venue in Chinese Daily Life
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Shanghai – A Flagship City
11th March 2019
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.
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Chinese Retailers Entering the UK
14th November 2018
It’s been just over a year since I left China to join Geolytix, back in the UK.
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Open EU 2011 Census Data Pack
13th November 2018
Free is an odd word. Free has a duality; gratis “for free”, and libre “with few restrictions”.