Topics: Market Data, Data Partner, Retail Industry, Coronavirus

Two months into our global shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and one thing is pretty clear: there are some businesses that are inherently built to withstand a crisis like this one. One such industry: grocery.

Topics: Smart Retail Growth, Market Research, Capital Planning, Retail Industry, Coronavirus, Grocery

Thanks to our data partner, Applied Geographic Solutions, we’re offering free unemployment data as a layer in SiteSeer. We’ll be updating the top metropolitan and micropolitan areas in the country every week here on the SiteSeer blog. Want to learn more? Contact us!

Topics: Market Data, Data Partner, Retail Industry, Coronavirus

Topics: Market Data, Data Study, Data Partner, Retail Industry, Coronavirus

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

It’s an interesting time to be alive, that’s for certain!

Topics: Improving Store Locations, Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Coronavirus

If you’re at all connected to the grocery business, you’ve probably seen the headlines about natural and organic grocery chains closing their stores:

Topics: Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Restaurant Site Selection

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