COVID-19 A bit more help than just the Milkman. 2020 was a year we will never forget and it changed the way we socially interacted as a nation. The food industry was significantly impacted, which opened doors for an old British favourite...the milkman.
Mobility Data Life After Lockdown Anecdotally, town and city centres have been busy since England Lockdown 2 ended last Wednesday. We’ve been busy processing up mobility data from Saturday to see what it tells us about the 18,000 Retail Places we monitor.
Mobility Data Did Somebody Say…It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas… Wednesday marked the end of England’s four-week Lockdown II. Many retailers will now be looking to salvage what they can following a tumultuous year. The run-up to Christmas is always a condensed & critical period but in 2020 this is exacerbated. So, what can we expect during these next three weeks?
Mobility Data Harnessing Mobility Data in Thailand While Thailand has been successful at managing the Coronavirus pandemic the economic toll has been high with a sharp decline in international tourist arrivals and falling private investment leading to a forecasted -7.3% contraction of GDP in 2020.
Retail Recovery Barnsley – the future looks bright for a town with real heart and soul Across the country, 2020 has been challenging in a way that none of us expected it to be. Every village, town and city across the country has its own story of how the year has unfolded, and the impacts of COVID-19 have been felt.
Retail Recovery The Wales Firebreak The Wales Firebreak that came into effect on 23rd October attracted a great deal of media attention last week, with photographs of cordoned off ‘non-essential’ aisles a regular feature. But has the Wales Firebreak worked in terms of reducing activity?
COVID-19 Tiers and Tears Since areas of the UK began entering local lockdowns in September, we have assembled these boundaries as a useful resource to track what is going on.
tourism How can data help our tourist towns recover? We’ve been pondering this question at Geolytix. Here in our local state of Victoria, Australia, our tourist towns have been hit by the double whammy of horrific bushfires followed by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Office The office, to be or not to be? Or is the real question... where? Like many an office biscuit tin, ours is sadly on a career break.
Retail Recovery PRESS RELEASE: Geolytix Retail Recovery Index There seems to be a broad consensus on top-level recovery rates in the UK as lockdown eases. But every city, town, village, shopping centre, retail park and local parade has its own story.
Retail Recovery Retail Recovery - Que Sera Sera? We’re often asked what a good level of forecast accuracy looks like. The answer is always: it depends. Some things are hard to forecast. Really hard. Even harder than convenience store turnover. Like, will things ever return to normal?
COVID-19 COVID-19 and the rise of Click & Collect I didn’t order anything in the first 10 weeks of lockdown, conscious that I didn’t want to pull a delivery worker out if it wasn’t an essential visit.
COVID-19 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.
Retail 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.
People 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.
China 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.
