Apple Planning to Open Mini Outlets Inside Target Stores

Posted on July 1, 2012 by bermanevansretail
To supplement its own stores and distribution through third-party retailers, Apple is opening mini stores in Target.
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Leveraging GIS to Enhance Shopping Center Performance

Posted on July 1, 2012 by bermanevansretail
Esri is one of the leaders in GIS (geographic information system) software. It has a wide number of product solutions.
Click the photo to learn more in a story from Directions Magazine. Represented below is one of the “20 shopping centers operated by UP in the Midwestern United States, along with its sister company and leasing agent NorthMarq. GIS is part of the solution to provide location analytics, improving the companies’ success in leasing vacant space.”

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Dixons Deploys Analytics for Store Location Planning

Posted on July 1, 2012 by bermanevansretail
As Antony Savvas reports in Computerworld UK, Dixons Retail is utilizing analytical software to determine where to locate stores in optimal locations in Great Britain and elsewhere. “The electrical retailer is using the MapInfo Professional geographic analysis tool, from supplier Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), in order to optimize the location of stores in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and Nordic countries.”
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Dixons deploys analytics for store location planning

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