Location Strategies & Store Performance

Optimize your new and existing location strategies.

Audiense, powered by Buxton, gives teams the location intelligence to perform site selection analysis, optimize location strategy, and make more confident decisions across their physical footprint.

You can’t optimize a location network with a partial view of the market.

When making high-risk location decisions, demographics, broker guidance, and basic idea of foot traffic are useful inputs. But they don’t always explain which consumers are nearby, where else they go, how trade areas overlap, or which locations are falling short of forecasted potential.

Audiense powered by Buxton helps location strategists reduce the risk of:

  • Expanding into markets without enough whitespace
  • Missing opportunity to correct underperformance
  • Relying on disconnected inputs across planning and ops
  • Selecting sites without understanding trade area fit
  • Oversaturating markets or cannibalizing nearby locations
  • Misallocating limited capital and resources

Audiense cuts through location complexity for clearer decisions.

Prioritize where
to grow

Make location decisions ahead of store expansion, franchising, and one-time experiences.

Improve site selection confidence

Evaluate potential sites with a clear view of surrounding customers, competitors, and trade area dynamics.

Focus resources
allocation

Identify which locations may need more marketing, operational support, or strategic attention.

Build a stronger location strategy — from market planning to store performance.

Optimize market growth

Understand how many locations a market can support, where whitespace exists, and which trade areas offer the strongest opportunities for expansion, infill, or consolidation.

Configure territories and trade areas

Identify where your brand has room to grow, which markets are underserved, and where infill, relocation, or new development may make sense before you move into site-level evaluation.

Evaluate site potential

Assess potential locations using surrounding trade area characteristics, customer fit, competitor presence, cotenants, visitation patterns, and proximity to existing locations before committing to a site.

Improve location-level decisions

Identify where existing locations may need more marketing, operational support, or strategic attention based on local market conditions, audience fit, and forecasted potential.

How Audiense helps teams build
deeper audience knowledge.

Market planning, site selection, and location optimization.

  • Map and visualize market potential
  • Identify audience clusters based on affinities and interconnections
  • Compare segments across markets, brands, and categories
  • Build reusable audience definitions for planning and analysis

“Today, [we can] go to our steering committee and the board and say, ‘This is our growth strategy, our plan, and the data to support it.’”

Nedal Shami
Co-Founder, CityMD

Location intelligence is the start. Audiense enhances the picture.

Audiense In-Person is part of the broader Audiense platform. The consumer intelligence that guides your real estate decisions is connected to the same data your marketing and e-commerce teams can use to reach and convert those customers.

Use Audiense Discover for

Deeper audience understanding to fuel location strategy

  • Profile customer segments around stores or markets
  • Compare audience traits across priority locations
  • Identify interests, affinities, and cultural signals
  • Understand influencers, media, and channels that reach local audiences

Use Audiense Action for

AI-powered campaign planning and execution

  • Understand who is most likely to buy and who’s in your stores
  • Test promotions against lookalike audience personas
  • Shape offers, creative, and channel strategy
  • Inform inventory decisions

Use Audiense Online Powered by Elevar for

E-commerce intelligence and conversion tracking

  • Capture product, order, customer, checkout, and attribution data
  • Attribute online activity without relying on cookies
  • Push conversion insight directly to your top channels
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