What does the first Amazon Go tell us about the future.
“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed” as William Gibson famously said many times. Samantha and I were lucky enough to be in Seattle last Tuesday and visited the future; or did we? Is the amazon go store the harbinger? Will the…
The Dining Club – IKEA
“It doesn’t matter what you make, it’s the people that are the best ingredients.” This was the slogan for the IKEA pop-up café and store in Shoreditch, London which opened for 15 days during September. The pop-up offered a number of features including hosting your…
Retail Points Update
Since the last release of Retail Points the Netto and Sainsburys joint venture trial has ended resulting in closure of all 16 stores. Just two years after the discount retailer comeback was launched, all stores were closed in August of this year. That wasn’t the only…
FOSS4G 2016 – Bonn
Last week Geolytix touched down in Bonn for the 2016 FOSS4G. While Blair and Christoph listened to the business to business session and Dennis extended his skills knowledge at some of the various workshops, I took to opportunity to explore Bonn before the conference started…
Join us – Office Support Vacancy
This position has been filled when Donna joined our team in January 2017. GEOLYTIX is a Kings Cross-based team of thirteen developers, data scientists and location planners. We are having a great time working with retailers, restaurants and the wider property world. We help businesses…
Veggie Pret – Not just for Veggie’s
During the month of June Pret A Manger opened a pop-up vegetarian store – not a ‘new concept store’, they acknowledged. This Veggie Pret was a fun way to get feedback and comments. The root of this (dare I say it) ‘concept’ is to act as inspiration…
Location Planning and Data Analytics firm Geolytix win Queen’s Award for Enterprise
London-based Geolytix have today won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for creating innovative spatial algorithms that help retailers profitably attract and serve customers in a complex multi-channel world. Despite the massive shift to online, physical stores (for now at least) remain the bedrock of commerce….
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. There have been changes in the UK supermarket world since the last release with the most notable one being: Morrisons selling their M Locals to Mike Green…
Are you our next Senior Data Scientist?
You’ll be working with the thought leaders in spatial analysis, and we’re looking forward to finding out what we can learn from you. The role can be fit around your strengths, whether that is geo-demographics or gravity modelling but you’ll have the chance to build…
Samantha’s Week One – Back to Maps…
Week One – Back to Maps. It’s been a buzz so far! I’ve been reminded of the power of data and a map together. Once combined questions that seemed unanswerable are suddenly simple. Whole new possibilities are opened up. I’ve seen the lightbulb go on…
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