Shops that closed this month, for the high street story
Chain stores that closed this month, for the high street story.
What it does
Every month: the chain stores and restaurants in your city’s high streets that closed since last month, with what the space was, for the retail reporter’s high street story.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in London, find clothing stores, restaurants and 2 more in the area, spot what changed, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Empty shops tell the story of a high street. This flow counts them every month so the reporter starts with the facts.
Who it is for
Media, newsrooms & publishing. Newsrooms, broadcasters, publishers and media sales teams who need local stories, audiences and advertisers first. Every use case for media & publishing
Best use cases
- A retail reporter
- A business newspaper
- A city centre partnership
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- High streetsWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- High street storesxMap 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.
- Closed since last monthLogic · What changedLets through only the places this flow found before whose details changed since: closed, a rating that moved, a new phone or website, a new name or address, or any field you name.
- Write the story notesxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- 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.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- Competitor mapping: Knowing where competitors are, what opens and how they are rated.
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