May 2024 Round-up
At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from May 2024. Gbbis The team at...
ICSC 2024
By mid-morning on the Tuesday of the annual pilgrimage to ICSC Vegas, my body harshly reminds me that humans were not designed to walk for hours on concrete floors. And by mid-afternoon, driving south on I-15 towards the California state line as if the local sheriff...
Don’t Call it a Comeback
News broke late last week that online giant Wayfair was opening it’s first brick and mortar store in the Chicago area. If we hear repeatedly that “retail is dead”, why would Wayfair take this gamble and open a physical store? Likely because they know what we know:...
AGS Staff Favorites From 2024A
When we put together a new release, one of my favorite things to do is look through the list of new variables and pick out the odd, the unique, the interesting, and think about the use cases of who needs them. Just like I do, the staff also went through the list, we...
2024A Release Overview
The AGS 2024A data release is now available. Here are the highlights that you will find in the new release. Many of the AGS data are available natively at the block level. Block level output of other datasets is handled by disaggregation techniques using the AGS block...
Summer at the Lake
Tourism can have significant impacts on retail sales, especially those related to convenience goods and food services. Over the years, many retail models have been built that use only the demographics of local residents while ignoring entirely the impacts that...
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