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Editorial illustration of two coffee shops at a US-style neighborhood intersection; not a photographed study site
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Coffee expansion: a wider radius changed 37% of our eight-county shortlist

Across 3,277 residential tracts in eight US counties, widening the competitor radius from 1 km to 3 km replaced 37% of an illustrative expansion shortlist.

14 October 202610 min readLocus Team
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Editorial view of a British town-centre high street with independent cafes, pedestrians and a bus stop used to frame a coffee location study
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UK High Street Opportunity Index: The Town-Centre Coffee Component

We scored 274 GeoDS town centres across four UK nations. The result is a reproducible component, not a national league table.

18 August 20269 min readAdam
UK high street with cafes, pedestrians and public transport used for location research
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UK High Street Opportunity Index: The Evidence Gate

We tested 9,623 UK retail centres and a four-nation coffee pilot to learn what must be proved before a high street ranking is fair.

12 August 20268 min readAdam

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Clearer thinking for site selection, expansion, and monitoring.

Hyperrealistic US retail corridor with neighbourhood shopping centres and access roads at golden hour
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4 August 20267 min readAhmed

US Retail Centre Coverage: Where Expansion Teams Have the Clearest Map

We analysed 10,596 mapped US retail centres and Census Vintage 2025 state populations to find where expansion teams have the strongest open retail-centre coverage.

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