Retail Analytics Consulting
We provide data-driven strategies and insights to help retailers optimize investments, engage customers, and increase profitability.
Three Step Transformation
- Understand your goals and challenges
- Develop a scope of work + process for partnership
- Start leveraging actionable insights for retail success
What is Retail Strategy & Analytics?
Retail Strategy and Analytics combines site performance data, consumer behavior analysis, market intelligence, and competitive benchmarking to validate the decisions that drive portfolio growth. It answers specific questions: which markets offer the strongest expansion opportunity? Which existing locations are underperforming relative to their trade area potential? Where is the portfolio carrying risk that the current data does not surface?
These are not abstract strategy questions. They are the inputs that inform real estate negotiations, construction investment decisions, lease renewal timing, and store design priorities. When the analytics are disconnected from those downstream decisions, the strategy exists on paper but not in practice.
Why Data-Driven Retail Strategy Matters
Retail is in constant flux, shaped by changing consumer behavior, omnichannel pressure, and rising real estate costs. What once felt predictable is now uncertain, and instinct alone doesn’t account for how customers actually move, shop, and engage. Retail data analytics gives brands a way to validate decisions before committing capital, reduce exposure to costly missteps, and move forward with strategies built on evidence, not assumptions.
RETAIL STRATEGY & ANALYTICS
Leaders in Retail Thinking
Every success story starts with the right plans. Those plans must be founded on a deep understanding of the customer, the market, and the opportunity – they are interconnected. We help brands with informed retail strategy, based on live proprietary data. Here’s how:
ASG’s Analytical Approach & Methodology
Each smart decision begins with understanding what’s really happening. ASG’s approach is designed to reveal that understanding step by step, turning complex data into meaningful revelations.
- Data collection. We gather the information that matters most, including sales performance, customer demographics, and geographic context. The goal is to paint a complete picture of how and where your brand shows up in the market.
- Performance benchmarking. Store, site, and market performance are measured against relevant benchmarks to uncover what’s working, what’s lagging, and where opportunities are emerging.
- Gap analysis. By comparing current performance to potential demand, we uncover gaps that point to missed opportunities, inefficiencies, or areas of unnecessary risk.
- Customer segmentation. We break down who your customers are, how they behave, and what drives them, moving beyond broad assumptions to more meaningful, actionable groupings.
- Forecasting. Using historical data and market trends, we model future scenarios to help anticipate demand, test strategies, and prepare for what’s ahead.
- Strategy recommendations. Insights are distilled into clear, focused recommendations that guide decisions around expansion, optimization, and long-term planning.
- Reporting dashboards. Everything comes together in intuitive dashboards that make complex analysis easier to understand, share, and act on.
Altogether, these retail analytics solutions help brands navigate every stage of the retail lifecycle with confidence and intention.
Services & Deliverables Provided
ASG clients gain access to deliverables that support both near-term decisions and long-range planning:
- Market reports
- Store performance audits
- Customer segmentation reports
- Expansion and downsizing plans
- Performance dashboards
- Regular strategic reviews
Each output is designed to deliver insight your teams can use, supported by tools and frameworks that operate with the power of retail analytics software.
Benefits to Retailers and Brands
When strategy is guided by analytics, clarity replaces guesswork. Investment decisions become more intentional, footprints more precise, and customer connections more meaningful. As markets shift, this approach gives brands the confidence to adapt without losing momentum or their core identity. It creates room to grow with purpose, resilience, and direction.
Talk to ASG About Your Retail Strategy Needs
ASG partners with brands to bring insight, structure, and confidence to retail strategy through analytics-driven planning. If you’re ready to explore a smarter path forward, let’s start the conversation with a strategy consultation.
The Process
Because success stories start with the right plans.
01
Understand the Retail Landscape
For us, it’s crucial to understand the community we serve at an intimate level. We house world-class expertise in: trend watching, brand experience, retail forecasting, consumer insight, and more. It’s a lens that considers the individual influences and the big picture.
02
Gather & Analyze Key Data
To understand where we’re going and to make informed decisions along the way, we first need a baseline. We gather as much brand data as possible, and we analyze where consumers are interacting in real time.
03
Make Data-Driven Decisions
We pair client data with our proprietary data and research to evaluate and translate consumer behaviors, mobility data, psychographics information, plus local and national data to help you align actionable knowledge with business goals.
04
Powerful Go-Forward Plans
Where data becomes a plan of action – whether it’s the ideal customer journey, an experience design approach, a new site selection strategy, or tracking your deals and negotiations – we make sure to optimize the data to maximize your decision-making.
INTERCONNECTED RETAIL LIFECYCLE
Strategy & Tenant Rep: A Constantly Evolving Pro Forma
Interconnected disciplines ensure actions are informed and vetted across functions. Our Tenant Representation team leverages Strategy & Analytics to identify the best expansion markets based on real-time data, demographics, and behavior trends. Here’s how it works:
Informed Decisions
Retail analytics identifies expansion opportunities by analyzing customer mobility, sales trends, and demographic shifts.
Planning Ahead
Tenant Representation leverages these insights to secure sites in locations where consumer demand is already validated.
Long-term Viability
The outcome? Real estate strategy is informed by actual customer behavior versus solely trade area data, reducing risk and optimizing expansion. Learn more about Tenant Representation support >>
Becoming an Extension of Your Brand
We don’t consider ourselves an outsourced part of a project. Maxwell Miller, Manager, Marketing & Brand Strategy, talks about our collaborative approach to working with clients and how it produces tangible benefits.
LET’S GET STARTED
Three Step Transformation
- Understand your goals and challenges
- Develop a scope of work + process for partnership
- Start leveraging actionable insights for retail success

