SiteSeer’s Chief Information Officer Tom Kessler is known to SiteSeer’s clients as the “modeling guy,” the person who takes data from numerous sources and brings it all together to create the tools that help retailers and real estate professionals find the best sites and build profitable stores.
Turning Ideas Into Action: Q&A with SiteSeer’s Tom Kessler
Topics: Employee Spotlight
Navigating Decreased Demand if Your Business Thrived During COVID-19
Over the last year, the business headlines have been dominated by companies that have struggled—the restaurants, retailers, and other independent and chain businesses that have seen decreased demand or been forced to operate at reduced capacity for the majority of the past 13 months.
Topics: Smart Retail Growth, Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Restaurant Industry, Coronavirus, Grocery
Andy Straker is SiteSeer’s CTO and the person who keeps the system up and running on a daily basis. He has an interesting background and, in many ways, is the person responsible for SiteSeer’s existence. Let’s get to know Andy.
Topics: Employee Spotlight
For years, many have debated the death of shopping malls. The rise of ecommerce has been a big contributor to the struggles of brick-and-mortar retail, and many analysts and other experts have been talking about how these changes are impacting the American institution known as the shopping mall:
Topics: Retail Apocalypse, Recruiting Shopping Center Tenants, Retail Industry, Landlord Rep Brokers & Owners Industry, Tenant Rep Brokers & Developers Industry, Coronavirus
If Your Retail Void Report (Void Analysis) Doesn’t Have These Five Things, It’s Time for a Better Solution
We sometimes hear from people connected to the retail industry that traditional void reports are outdated and not all that useful.
Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Recruiting Shopping Center Tenants, Void Analysis
We all know by now that the year 2020 was challenging for many businesses for a variety of reasons. With many states laying out restrictions, some businesses were thrust into e-commerce on zero notice, while other businesses were forced to think outside the box on how to reach their customers in new ways.
Topics: Smart Retail Growth, Data Study, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software
How Will E-Commerce in Grocery Progress From Here?
Just before the calendar flipped to 2021, Albertsons Companies made a big announcement regarding its grocery delivery service.
Topics: Omnichannel Retail, Retail Site Selection, Grocery, E-Commerce
The 15 Fastest-Growing Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas (10/19 to 10/20)
If there is one question the SiteSeer team has consistently received in the last 10 months, it is some variation of, “What cities are growing/shrinking in the U.S. these days, and where should we locate next as a result?” With new data from STI: PopStats in hand for the time period October 2019 to October 2020, we set out to understand which markets grew the fastest.
[Case Study]: Shopko Optical Sees Clearer with SiteSeer Pro Software
When Monarch Alternative Capital acquired Shopko Optical in May 2019, it became critical for the real estate team to have a powerful, easy-to-use site selection and analysis platform that would help the company continue to grow after opening 80 standalone locations.
“We needed an analytics tool to help us with mapping, evaluating real estate, and assessing trade areas,” says Donna Capichano, chief development officer at Shopko Optical. “The tool we were using previously was expensive and produced inaccurate results. It was time for something better.”
Topics: Smart Retail Growth, Real Estate Analytics Tool, Improving Store Locations, Site Selection Software, Case Study