Retail Expansion

    Find your best retail location before you sign the lease.

    Score any street or vacant unit across demand, competition, rent, and permit fit - and compare locations side by side before you commit.

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    Retail storefront on a European shopping street

    The Problem

    Most retail expansion decisions still rely on gut feel.

    Footfall data tells you how busy a street is. It doesn't tell you if it's right for your category. Operators are comparing locations manually - across spreadsheets, agent reports, and site visits - without a consistent scoring framework.

    How Shareloc Helps

    What Shareloc does for retail teams.

    01

    Score any location instantly.

    Enter a street or vacant unit. Receive an AI Location Score based on demand, competition, rent efficiency, and permit fit for your category.

    Shareloc retail site selection dashboard showing AI location score for a vacant unit with demand, competition and rent metrics
    02

    Compare locations side by side.

    Standardised scoring across all candidate sites. No assumptions. No agent bias.

    Side-by-side comparison of candidate retail locations with standardised scores across cities in Shareloc
    03

    Find category gaps before competitors do.

    See where your business category is undersupplied - by street, by city, by competitor density.

    Map view of retail category gaps and undersupplied streets highlighted by competitor density in Shareloc

    Also Works For Your Existing Stores

    Not just new sites - score the ones you already run.

    Shareloc isn't only for new sites. Score the locations you already run, find the underperformers whose problem is their address, and measure catchment overlap between your own stores.

    Results

    Tested on real retail decisions.

    17-point gap
    Same rent, same city, different streets - Breda pilot
    76 competitors
    Why the highest-footfall street in Haarlem scored below 50% for Fashion

    See what Shareloc finds on your retail market.

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    Or write to us at hello@shareloc.io

    Further reading

    How to choose the right location for business expansion - the five signals that decide it, and how to build the business case.

    How Shareloc spotted a boutique fitness gap in Zaandam - a pilot case study the market confirmed a year later.