by Elyse Menger | Oct 17, 2024 | Site Selection
7-Eleven, Walgreens, TGI Fridays, Big Lots, True Value. These are all American mainstays in the retail and restaurant worlds. Yet, all have recently announced massive store closures in the last few weeks. While it is sad that the stores are closing, it also presents...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 17, 2024 | Consumer Expenditures
For many years, one of the primary complaints that we have heard about small area consumer spending models, from any of the major data vendors, is a lack of variance. Look at the percent of total expenditures at the block group spent on any category, and there is much...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 10, 2024 | Climate Data, Menger's Musings
With Helene still visible in the rear-view mirror and communities from Florida to Virginia still without power, water and connectivity, this week’s Milton delivered more misery and damage to the southeast. Two in the space of a couple of weeks must be unprecedented,...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 10, 2024 | Maps, Parcel Data
If the purpose of a site report is to convey an understanding of trade area demographics, it only makes sense that maps were soon included. Even cut-and-paste topographic maps, with hand drawn radii, brought the numbers on the page to life. The early attempts at...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 3, 2024 | Finance, Product Sneak Peek
The AGS synthetic household model was introduced with the completely new Household Finances database earlier this year. Over the past few months, we have been busy expanding the demographic content of the household model in order to provide a base for the new Consumer...
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