Grocery Growth: UK Supermarket and Convenience Openings in 2024

2024 saw major shifts in UK grocery retail with bold expansions, innovative formats, and strategic closures shaping the industry.

Published 31st December 2024 • Tags open-data, geodata

UK Bank & Building Societies Points

UK Bank and Building Society points for 27 operators. All current and closed (since 2015) locations for operators with more than 10 branches.

Published 26th July 2023 • Tags open-data

Supermarket Retail Points

Retail Points is a comprehensive data set of supermarket and convenience store locations across the UK. Geolytix release this as open data allowing for unrestricted use, no licensing requirements and without cost.

Published 13th February 2023 • Tags open-data

Why do Geolytix love, use and publish Open Data?

Geolytix use, create, publish and love Open Data. Here's why.

Published 27th October 2022 • Tags open-data, awards

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial

If you use or develop open data and software for geospatial then FOSS4G events are for you.

Published 19th October 2022 • Tags open-data, our-team

UK Retail Points - Supermarket Locations 2022Q3

Looking for a list of supermarket locations in the UK? Look no further. Free to use, accurate and updated quarterly. Geolytix have the resource for you.

Published 7th October 2022 • Tags open-data

Census 2021 - England & Wales first results

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the first results of the 2021 England & Wales Census this week at Local Authority District level.

Published 30th June 2022 • Tags census, open-data

UK Retail Points - Supermarket Locations 2022Q1

A strong start in the first quarter of 2022 for the UK grocery market. The opening and addition of 196 stores and 48 closures in our latest data release.

Published 21st April 2022 • Tags open-data

UK Supermarket Retail Points - Q4 2021

The 22nd version and final update for 2021 of UK Supermarket Retail Points is available. Aldi continues it's expansion, Morrisons Daily stores increase and Mere enters the market.

Published 22nd December 2021 • Tags open-data

Bank Branch Data Open and Free from Geolytix

We are making the last 5 years of canonical UK bank branch data fully open under a CC0 license. It includes all UK branches - including those now shut - that have traded over the last five years. Read for more information...

Published 23rd September 2021 • Tags open-data

Geolytix open Supermarket Retail Points - 20th Edition

The 20th version of Geolytix’s open data set; Retail Points, has now been released.

Published 10th May 2021 • Tags open-data, geodata

Geolytix Supermarket Retail Points V19

Our comprehensive data set of supermarket and convenience store locations across the UK, Retail Points, has now been updated and released the 19th version.

Published 18th February 2021 • Tags open-data

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

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

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

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

Open EU 2011 Census Data Pack

Free is an odd word. Free has a duality; gratis “for free”, and libre “with few restrictions”.

Published 13th November 2018 • Tags open-data, census

4 Years of Retail Points

It’s been 4 years since the first release of Retail Points (previously Open Supermarkets) and hasn’t it been an exciting time in the world of grocery.

Published 23rd October 2018 • Tags open-data

Retail Points Updated

6 facts about this release for the 6th day of December.

Published 6th December 2017 • Tags open-data

European Census Data and Boundaries

Censuses have been a critical element of running a civilisation since civilisation began.

Published 7th November 2017 • Tags open-data, census

Retail Points Update - May 2017

Not only has it been busy in the Geolytix office but as always in the turbulent world of food retail there having been many announcements over the past few months.

Published 31st May 2017 • Tags open-data, geodata

Administrative Boundaries > OpenStreetMap

Here at GEOLYTIX we believe that the best available administrative boundaries data should be open and easily accessible. We are a little vain in respect to our maps. Badly fitting boundaries should not be crossed out.

Published 31st March 2017 • Tags open-data

Retail Points Update - October 2016

Since the last release of Retail Points the Netto and Sainsburys joint venture trial has ended resulting in closure of all 16 stores.

Published 19th October 2016 • Tags open-data

Open Supermarkets now known as Retail Points

Today sees the release of the latest instalment of Open Supermarkets, we have now renamed this Retail Points.

Published 5th April 2016 • Tags open-data

Open Supermarkets – Now including Co-op Societies and Iceland

With every release of the open supermarkets Geolytix aim to improve and build on the previous version.

Published 15th September 2015 • Tags open-data

Open Supermarkets Locations

Published 18th May 2015 • Tags open-data

Open Supermarket Locations – now includes the Co-operative Group

Version 4 of open supermarkets is now available with the following notable additions to its predecessor:

Published 14th January 2015 • Tags open-data

Open Supermarket Locations

A drive or walk round any suburb or city nowadays seems to reveal at least one recently opened supermarket.

Published 22nd October 2014 • Tags open-data

Workplace Data Release

The world is getting more mobile and connected. As analysts we need to go beyond knowing what types of people sleep where.

Published 23rd June 2014 • Tags open-data

UK Open Census Data

First off, congratulations to Jeni Tennison OBE and Keith Dugmore MBE on their gongs for services to Open Data.

Published 2nd January 2014 • Tags census, open-data

A Big breakthrough for Open Data – detailed House Price Paid data

Yesterday the Land Registry made, in my view, the most significant Open Data announcement for four years.

Published 15th May 2013 • Tags open-data, geodata

The Languages of London

I’m working on a couple of projects where Culture/Ethnicity/Language are pretty high up the ‘important stuff we have to consider’ list.

Published 30th March 2013 • Tags open-data, census

Why Open Data leads to Higher Quality Data

We are often told Geolytix are foolish to ‘give away’ data we have created, especially when we know we could license that data for good money.

Published 20th February 2013 • Tags open-data

UK Census Pack – Open Data

For the last couple of weeks at Geolytix we’ve been eager little data bunnies processing the detailed English, Welsh and Northern Irish Census Data.

Published 14th February 2013 • Tags open-data, census