You’ve probably seen the headlines lately regarding the impact of COVID-19 on Census operations.

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Data Partner, Data Quality, Coronavirus

With COVID-19 shaking up the brick-and-mortar world, many expect that shopping center owners will having many vacancies on their hands in the months and years to come. For those whose job it is to fill those vacancies, wading through struggling and bankrupt chains to find businesses that are still seeking expansion opportunities will be a challenge.

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Void Analysis, Retail Industry, Landlord Rep Brokers & Owners Industry, Tenant Rep Brokers & Developers Industry, Retail Match

If you’ve been following along, you know that during the months of April and May, SiteSeer was reporting weekly unemployment claims as a percentage in major metropolitan and micropolitan areas across the country. (Read our updates from 4/29, and for the weeks ended 4/27, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16, and our 6/26 update). 

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Data Study, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Coronavirus

Coronavirus has changed the way we live, work, shop and interact—and most of us are wondering how life will ever return to normal.

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Coronavirus

There are times that it makes good sense for a chain business to expand, and there are times it makes sense for that chain business to expand in a different way than they have in the past (to better reach customers).

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Smart Retail Growth, Retail Industry, Customer Analysis

It’s that time of year when those of us in the business of retail real estate research are looking backward at the year prior. What retail categories grew? Which ones shrank? SiteSeer’s data partner, ChainXY, provides insights into over 4,500 chains in the United States and Canada. We dug into their three broad areas (retail, restaurant and services) to collect a snapshot of how chains that existed on January 1, 2019, grew or shrunk over the year.

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Data Study, Data Partner, Retail Industry

Attention retailers/restaurateurs/operators and executives of other chain businesses: have you ever received an email like this before:

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Market Data, Retail Industry, Restaurant Industry, Data Quality

Throughout our many years in retail real estate research, we’ve heard businesses of all types simplify the assessment of their business’s trade area. So often, we hear economic developers and retailers describe their trade area as a certain-mile radius around a site, but in reality, there are many different ways to delineate a trade area.

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Retail Trade Area, Real Estate Analytics Tool, Analyzing Retail Sites

If you’re going to the effort of analyzing new retail sites, you should do the same due diligence when evaluating your existing store base. Your goal, after all, is to maximize the ROI of your store/location portfolio. And that involves being strategic about how you run your business. 

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Retail Industry

SiteSeer's Look at the U.S. Cities with the Biggest Increase in Youth Population

If you’re a business that serves families with children, you’ve probably wondered: what areas in the United States are seeing the biggest increase in children? For our latest data study, we decided to take a look.

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Market Data, Data Study, Population Study, Retail Industry