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The Top 10 Retail Analytics Companies Today

From sales and marketing to planning and pricing, retail analytics is a critical enterprise asset and an essential competency for today’s modern retailers. If you’re looking to equip your business with the latest retail technology, consider these ten popular retail analytics companies to get you started.

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Site Performance & Selection: Retail foot traffic office supply data in New York State

We used Unacast Now and Tableau to build an interactive map detailing the foot traffic performance of Staples office supply stores in New York State from September 2020 to September 2021. Click around and zoom-in a bit and you may notice distinct pockets of opportunity for each office supplies retailer.

Unacast now available on Bloomberg’s Data Marketplace

Unacast, the top location data company, is now available to Bloomberg Data License clients through Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point’s alternative data catalog. Unacast’s data will allow quants at hedge funds, insurance firms and other financial institutions to explore foot traffic, migration patterns and emerging markets.

How a Hedge Fund uses foot traffic and location data

Hedge funds identified the value of location data a few years ago. Until then, they would send someone to a big box retailer to count the number of visitors coming in and out, or count the number of cars parked, and make predictions based on this information. Location data now does the same automatically, with more sophistication, on a larger scale, and in real time.

Restaurant Foot Traffic by State - Summer 2021

Restaurant foot traffic is ticking-up heading into autumn of 2021, but what’s the lingering damage versus the pre-COVID trend, and can recent short term gains sustain through the end of the year to create mid term strength heading into 2022? Unacast studied restaurant foot traffic across the US for the period of June 1 to August 21, 2021 to find out.

Nike vs Adidas vs PUMA: Foot Traffic in Summer 2021

How is the pandemic impacting the competition in the global $100 billion dollar athletic footwear industry, and which brand has established footprints in what US market? We studied recent US foot traffic data for Nike, Adidas and PUMA to find out.

How to leverage Unacast data to estimate business potential in a region?

Measuring the number of people visiting certain venue, a set of venues, or a brand, is probably the most common way of using human mobility data. It is a perfectly valid use-case as long as there is a list of existing venues and one wants to know how they perform. But what if a venue does not exist, yet we still want to know which regions hold the potential for opening one?

How retail cross-visitation data can inform competitive analysis

See how cross-visitation data can inform retail competitive analysis, featuring data and observations about Nordstrom, American Eagle, Target and Homewood Suites.

Supply Chain: Americold Venue Traffic Analysis

Truck drivers are getting harder to find, creating a push towards rail as a preferred means of transporting goods across the US. That means collateral impacts in the intermodal cold storage and drayage business. What can foot traffic patterns at one of the nation’s leading suppliers of cold storage tell us? We used our BYO Venue Data Platform connected with Google geocoding to examine foot traffic patterns around five Americold venues between May 2 and July 31 2021.

Interactive location data used to assess retail site performance: Athleta vs. Lululemon

We used Unacast NOW to take a look at how Athleta is faring across the US over summer of 2021. To provide context, we compared Athleta to lululemon, with special focus in markets where the two compete head to head. This interactive table shows the results.

Unacast ranks as one of the fastest growing companies in the US on the Inc. 5000

Unacast, a data analytics company with headquarters in Oslo and New York City, ranks as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. The company is in the midst of a recruitment campaign to double in size by the end of 2021.

4 Observations on Emerging Areas & Brands

In our recent whitepaper, Downtowns going Uptown, we used Unacast Now to look at US cities with a population of 250,000 to 350,000 to determine which had the best rates of recovery, combined with positive inflow of both population and income. News flash: not a lot of cities fell into this category.

Lambeth Council recognised as a trailblazer in post-COVID adaption with Unacast’s uniquely granular, comparative location data

You may never stop to think about it, but humans are rich and fascinating sources of data. Far from producing erratic, unconnected data points, every day we are weaving patterns through our behavioural habits and interactions with each other, and influencing markets and governments with our feet alone.

Hybrid is the new office

Your private and professional life has changed and many of us are now adjusting accordingly. At Unacast we are changing our setup to allow for this new demand and need for flexibility by adopting a hybrid work model. Read on to learn how we are preparing for our return to office this autumn.

Whole Foods vs. Trader Joe's in San Francisco

Which grocer gets the most foot traffic?

The Top Real Estate Analytics Companies Right Now

Real estate analytics leads to improved decision making, customer engagement, and building performance. A large part of real estate analytics includes location data. It all starts with choosing the right tool. This article has a brief list of the top real estate analytics companies and what types of features they bring to the table for commercial real estate, in particular.

3 Use Cases for Location Data in Financial Services

Many use cases for location data boil down to informing investment decisions and the financial services industry is certainly no different. Though the manner of the investment varies, the need in financial services that location data meets is to intelligently augment broader decision-making processes.

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The Top 10 Retail Analytics Companies Today

Our Blog

Site Performance & Selection: Retail foot traffic office supply data in New York State

Unacast now available on Bloomberg’s Data Marketplace

How a Hedge Fund uses foot traffic and location data

Restaurant Foot Traffic by State - Summer 2021

Nike vs Adidas vs PUMA: Foot Traffic in Summer 2021

How to leverage Unacast data to estimate business potential in a region?

How retail cross-visitation data can inform competitive analysis

Supply Chain: Americold Venue Traffic Analysis

Interactive location data used to assess retail site performance: Athleta vs. Lululemon

Unacast ranks as one of the fastest growing companies in the US on the Inc. 5000

4 Observations on Emerging Areas & Brands

Lambeth Council recognised as a trailblazer in post-COVID adaption with Unacast’s uniquely granular, comparative location data

Hybrid is the new office

Whole Foods vs. Trader Joe's in San Francisco

The Top Real Estate Analytics Companies Right Now

3 Use Cases for Location Data in Financial Services