Shops that just closed: units to rent

What it does

Every Monday: the shops of your city, and the ones that closed since last week, each a unit that may soon be free, scored by xMap AI as a place for your next store, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in Barcelona, find clothing stores, shoe stores and cosmetics stores in the area, spot what changed, score and rank them with xMap AI, then email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

The best units go before they reach a broker's list. A shop that closes on a busy street is the first sign a unit is coming free, and this flow tells you the week it happens.

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

• A fashion chain looking for high street units
• A franchise team hunting for small shops
• A landlord's agent finding tenants for empty units

What each run gives you

• A score and reason for each closed shop
• An email of the week's closures
• A map of the units

The time it saves

Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. Every MondayTrigger · 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. Shops in the cityxMap 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.
4. Closed since last weekLogic · 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.
5. Score each unit with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
6. Email me the unitsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
7. Closed shops 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.