Geolytix Supermarket Data

Geolytix have very kindly shared details of their latest updated layer of data relating to supermarkets and other retail points as they are called. They have been sharing these for some years on a quarterly basis. The latest layer is on their blog.

The UK grocery landscape has changed a lot since Geolytix first started sharing their work in this way.

They suggest a variety of options for those wanting to purchase food in the UK:

Convenience - Aldi Local, Amazon Fresh, Asda Express, Asda On the Move, Budgens, Co-op, Jacks, Little Waitrose, M&S Food to Go, Morrisons Daily, Sainsbury’s Local, Tesco Express, Tesco Metro
Discounters - Aldi, Lidl
Freezer Centres - Cooltrader, Farmfoods, Heron, Iceland, The Food Warehouse
Petrol Forecourt - Asda PFS**, Co-op Food PFS**, Little Waitrose Shell, M&S BP, Morrisons Daily, Tesco Esso Express
Specialist - Booths, Marks & Spencer, Planet Organic, Waitrose, Whole Foods Market
Symbol Groups - Spar
Traditional - Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Waitrose
Travel - M&S MSA*, M&S Travel Simply Food, Waitrose MSA*
Wholesaler - Costco, Makro
Other - Asda Living, Dunnes, M&S Home; Hospital; Outlet, Morrisons Home and Nutmeg

*MSA: Motorway Service Area
**PFS: Petrol Filling Station

Source: https://geolytix.com/blog/supermarket-retail-points/

I am currently working on some GIS materials which make use of this layer. All the data is available in a Zipped file which is included on the blog post.

A guide is found on the Geolytix site as a PDF. (PDF download)

Here's a sneak preview of a map I'm working on using ArcGIS Online.

You can access the map via the link here - may need to login to ArcGIS Online to access it.

The activity will use a range of the tools in ArcGIS Online including aggregation and filtering.