In real estate, retail, and urban planning, having accurate, up-to-date traffic data is essential. Annual Average Daily Traffic...
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly natural language learning models (LLM) like ChatGPT, in the...
This blog post is based on our recent research paper, Exploring the Visitor Rate in the US Convenience Store & Gas...
Choosing the right location for your restaurant can make or break your business. With competition in the...
Selecting the perfect location is one of the most critical decisions for any retail business. The right site can drive sales...
Selecting the perfect location for a convenience store is a crucial decision that can significantly impact its...
In site selection, it is often assumed that the best business location to choose is the one that has the highest traffic volumes...
Imagine you're on the hunt for the perfect retail location. You come across an impressive statistic: the site has an...
The strategic selection of business locations is crucial to the success of retail and service-based businesses. One...
The strategic selection of business locations is crucial to the success of retail and service-based businesses. One...
Thinking about starting a car wash business or expanding to new locations? You’ll need more than just prime real...
Successful site selection is fundamentally about ROI, which in turn, depends on sales, customer count, and daily visits...
Car wash site selection is about much more than just finding a busy street. It requires a deep understanding of how...
The convenience store and discount store chains are, traditionally, less affected by economic downturn than their bigger...
At Ticon, we are confident that to choose the best site you need to consider 3 main factors: local communities, competition...
It's been a memorable two weeks since we concluded our participation in the NACS Show. This year marked Ticon's debut at the event, and it was an absolute...
In the world of retail blogs, we've all heard the resounding chorus: "Convenience stores drive massive traffic." It's a sentiment supported by mobile data...
Over the past two years, we have been hearing from everywhere about the decline in fuel consumption in the USA...
In the US, roads are classified based on their roles, known as Functional Road Classes. There are different types...
In our previous blog we’ve shared insights on convenience store seasonal patterns at summer holiday destinations. This time...
Seasonal retail fluctuations come as no surprise for summer and winter vacation destinations. Convenience stores often...
In today's rapidly evolving retail landscape, understanding consumer behavior and...
In the era of data-driven decision-making, businesses across industries are...
Are you ready to conquer a new market? Before taking the leap, it's crucial to assess the market's unique characteristics to...
If you want to succeed in business, you need to know who your customers are and where to find them. That’s why site...
It is well known that 91% of С-Store customers drive their vehicles to the stores. It should be obvious, then...
About two months ago, ChatGPT, a high-capacity chatbot that employs an enhanced version of OpenAI's AI technology to converse in simple English...
Ticon experts have analyzed traffic patterns for years and observed how external conditions can significantly impact traffic. Road construction projects, special..
As the saying goes, “There are only two seasons, winter and road construction”. There is a grain of truth in every joke - and a very big grain in this one. According to..
Living in California, our family road trips were always punctuated by stops at In-N-Out Burger, unanimously acclaimed as the best burger joint on the road, at least by..
Life after COVID brought about many changes to concepts that used to be simple and comprehensible. One of these concepts is the labor market dynamics..
In observance of the New Year 2023, with this article we start a new series of Industry News posts dedicated to Innovations, Solutions and Achievements..
Many of our clients know that access to comprehensive and reliable traffic data facilitates not just the site selection, but operation planning processes as well..
We recently shared with you a true story about a customer who left the store without the chocolate bar he wanted to buy - because the wait in line was..
This is a true story, with only the names changed for privacy of the protagonist. It happened exactly as you read it. Here’s what happened..
Knowing the number of people passing the billboard with a certain viewing time is critical not only for picking the billboard site but also from the point of view of..
In 1849, French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose “ – the more things change, the more they stay the same..
The expansion of nationwide EV charging station network is in the center of attention of the government agencies, environmental groups, and ...
The progress in AI traffic data collection technologies present a unique opportunity for billboard advertisers to grab the attention of a wider audience..
The members of the Baby Boomer generation may remember watching The Jetsons, an animated cartoon series that placed a typical 1960's..
Whether the slowdown of our economy is – or is not – a recession, the convenience stores don’t see the decline in customer visits, and..
When traffic experts analyze the input parameters for site selection, they usually consider only the small adjacent section of..
When it’s time to expand into a new market, knowledge of traffic volumes and customer buying power is essential. But what if you could go..
Many networked industries are currently undergoing revolutionary changes that force the major players to explore innovative tools for..
KYC, an abbreviation that stands for “Know your customer”, is an important feature of modern banking and finance industries, where it is…
The market for electriv vehicles (EV) in the US, for a few years dominated exclusively by Tesla, begins to see diversification of brands..
“Mass transit” is what you see through the plate glass window of your store every day: thousands of cars, thousands of people going from..
The last couple of years, marked by the global COVID pandemic, impacted everybody and everything in many ways. One of these, especially..
A convenience store, by virtue of its name, exists to make your life more… convenient. You stop to fill up the gas tank – or, at some..
Recent statements by the White House indicate the US government’s intention to make “the most transformative investment in electric..
According to a recent NACS report, the number of convenience stores in the United States declined for the fourth consecutive year,..
As the sales to convenience retailers ticked up in 2021, with two in three convenience retailers reporting higher in-store sales in 2021..
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TomTom recently announced a new product that allows the owner of an electric vehicle (EV) to plan the route with the consideration of EV..
There are winds of change blowing over Starbucks, and one of the newest changes these winds brought is the promise to...
Yet another chicken-serving restaurant is set to open in my neighborhood. It took...
Americans’ appetite for all things sweet and sugary just does not see to have a limit. Health considerations aside...
The convenience store industry is changing along with its customers. And their choices. For quite some time now...
The term “Black Gold” traditionally is associated with crude oil. But there is another contender for this title – coffee...
At the age when some companies willingly destroy their brands and some others cling to the brand as their only differentiator...
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Despite an uncertain economic landscape, the overwhelming majority of retailers...
Recent changes in tobacco product legislation are reshaping the landscape...
Marketing people have their own view of the world. This view is built on the...
"Couche Tard" is a French phrase that...
When it comes to lessons to be learned...
Every day in America, millions of them get up much earlier than they would like to, hastily put on their clothes...
Growing bigger is a natural desire of any business. The old adage is, when you stop growing, you start dying...
Being profitable in retail business is not easy. And the c-store business is...
Fact #1: the Americans aged 60 and above now make 17.3% of the population, and this number will increase...
In the dynamic market of severe competition and continuously changing demographic and behavioral patterns of American consumers, pinpointing...
Conducting traffic analysis for years, we observed how traffic patterns can change under external conditions not depending on the behavior of...
As retail businesses increasingly leverage the use of big data in decision-making processes, the importance of data quality could...
A recent report on Traffic Volume Trends released by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) stated that total vehicle miles..
The US drugstore industry is undergoing revolutionary changes that force the major players to explore innovative tools for network..
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In the dynamic market of severe competition and continuously changing demographic and behavioral patterns of American consumers, pinpointing...
Conducting traffic analysis for years, we observed how traffic patterns can change under external conditions not depending on the behavior of...
As retail businesses increasingly leverage the use of big data in decision-making processes, the importance of data quality could...
A recent report on Traffic Volume Trends released by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) stated that total vehicle miles..
The US drugstore industry is undergoing revolutionary changes that force the major players to explore innovative tools for network..
