Where to put click and collect lockers

What it does

Every quarter: blocks of your city with the most residents and no store of yours within 2 km, ranked, as sites for parcel lockers, with a note by xMap AI.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Warsaw, count who lives around, count the department stores and clothing stores within 2 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by per_store and keep the top 20, write a report with xMap AI, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Lockers bring online customers close to home. Blocks far from any store need them most.

Who it is for

Retail & franchise expansion. Expansion, real estate and network planning teams deciding where the next store or franchise goes. Every use case for retail & franchise

Best use cases

• An omnichannel retailer
• A parcel locker company
• A grocery chain

What each run gives you

• An email with the list
• A map of the results

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 180 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 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. Our stores nearbyxMap 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.
5. People per storeLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
6. 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.
7. Write the locker notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
8. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
9. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.

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.