How Spatial Data Analytics Helps the Retail Industry
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How Spatial Data Analytics Helps the Retail Industry

By: Katie William, Retail CIO Outlook | Wednesday, February 03, 2021

The retail industry is increasingly gaining the advantage of spatial data science and analytics.

FREMONT, CA: The retail industry is increasingly turning towards spatial data science to stay ahead in the competition. Spatial data science can help businesses regardless of their size, form, and turnover to win the race and occupy a leading position in the modern market. While micro, small, and medium retail businesses are looking to leveraging the most out of all the goodness that technology has to offer. These businesses are today prioritizing geospatial technology in order to access new and fresh streams of revenue. Return on investment is becoming not only a parameter for expanding the value of profitability but a factor for making a critical decision that has a direct impact on the growth of the business.

As a result of the pandemic that has taken place due to the novel COVID virus, the retail industry is making steeper, deeper, and increasingly unimaginable transitions. In this context, the retail business strategists and analysts have understood that the geography or the physical location of a store has an increasingly significant impact on the business patterns of the industry. This is where analytics acts as a silver bullet. Retail analytical software solutions that are integrated with geospatial technology have tremendously been gaining a lot of traction in critical business decision making.

The insights that are derived by the action of spatial data analytics helps the retail store gain practical, intelligent, insightful, intuitive, realistic insights into the pluses and minuses of business opportunities. This could allow the retail business store to depict the probabilities of sales based on the details such as the demography specifics such as the age group of the people, their interests, preferences, likes, choices, and more. All in all, the retail industry is waiting to go to the next higher level by leveraging spatial data analytics.      

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