Birmingham New Street/Grand Central: A space fit for the 21st century
On a fleeting visit to Birmingham I had some time to explore the redeveloped area at Grand Central/ New Street station. Although the redevelopment has been completely open for over a year, the inside area still feels brand new and is well looked after. All…
Bunnings first UK opening: An Aussie sausage sizzle in the snow
The shake up of the UK DIY sector recently got underway in St Albans with the opening of the first UK Bunnings. It’s certainly a world away from its Homebase predecessor. This feels like a ‘real’ DIY store. Where Homebase ventured increasingly into soft furnishings…
Recruiting Again
We’re hiring another two data scientists and a full-stack GIS developer. We offer flexible working including part-time/full-time, flexible hours and mixed home/office working… so long as you are good and get the job done we’re fine. Being an open respectful meritocracy that always aspires to…
Smiles and Giggles = Smiggle
We’re excited to post our first guest blog. Angela shares her take on one of the new retailers to hit the UK… It’s a dark, dreary January morning. Having a few child free hours, allows me to browse the sales in peace and being early…
Happy New Year!
So we have survived our first work week of 2017 – even if it was only 4 days. What a year we have in store; the feel good experience we are promised from the film La La Land, the grinding Brexit negotiations and the inauguration…
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…
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