The Physics of a Good Store Location

Roland Piquepaille writes, "In 'Atomic Physics Predicts Successful Store Location,' LiveScience reports that a French physicist has applied methods used to study atomic interactions for another task: to 'help business owners find the best places to locate their stores.' Pablo Jensen has used his method for the city of Lyon and is now developing software with the local Chamber of Commerce to help future business owners. Read more for additional references and maps of the city of Lyon showing for example the best locations to open a bakery, according to atomic physics." Jensen says that more research is needed to know if this method would work in other cities.

Comments

Interesting

[guardiangod]

I know people (usually the business types) who can go to an empty store location, look around for 3 minutes and tell you whether the location is good or not.

Even on the same street, stores on one side may be "live" while stores on the other side may be "dead".

tag: pigpile

[Janek Kozicki]

I saw once this tag used for this submitter. Let's use it from now on! (/me tags pigpile)