Neighbourhoods without a grocery store

What it does

Every month: blocks of your city with people but almost no grocery store within 500 m, the biggest gaps first, ranked by xMap AI for your distributors and new store partners.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Sydney, count who lives around, keep those where population ≥ 300, count the grocery stores, convenience stores and supermarkets within 500 m of each, keep those where nearby_count ≤ 1, sort them by population and keep the top 20, score and rank them with xMap AI, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Underserved neighbourhoods are where a new shop, a van route or a partner store will sell from day one.

Who it is for

FMCG & distribution field sales. Distributors and consumer brands whose reps cover outlets: new shops, routes, channels and stock. Every use case for fmcg & distribution

Best use cases

• A distributor planning van routes
• A brand recruiting store partners
• A grocery chain

What each run gives you

• A map
• An email

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 360 minutes each time, so it saves about 24 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 10 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. People in every block of the cityxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
4. Blocks where people liveLogic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
5. Grocery stores around each blockxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
6. Almost none nearbyLogic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
7. Best 20 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
8. Rank the gaps with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
9. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
10. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.