It wasn’t long ago that to determine the extent of your centre’s trade area, you studied a thick street directory and held shopper surveys over a period of a...
Author - Tony Dimasi
Tony Dimasi is Head of GapMaps Advisory and has been an independent advisor to the Australian shopping centre industry since 1982.
As a micro-economist, Tony’s emphasis in his work during the past four decades has been on the ever-changing needs and wants of the consumer, which philosophically he has always regarded as being the essential underpinning of economic analysis for the retail sector in particular.
Tony has worked across all parts of Australia and New Zealand as well as in Asia and the US. He has also appeared regularly as an independent expert in state planning courts and tribunals across all states of Australia as well as federal parliamentary inquiries and ACCC hearings. He is also a regular conference speaker and columnist in retail industry publications.
This article by Tony Dimasi, Head of Advisory at GapMaps is featured in the latest issue of SCN magazine – September/October Mini Guns edition. On 28 June...
Mobile device data continues as a powerful and insightful tool to measure the changes in shopper visitation patterns, almost in real-time – it’s...
Some three weeks ago, Tony Dimasi reported on the early results in visitation patterns evident from GapMaps analysis of personal mobility data as Australia’s...
Australian shopping centres have at last commenced the long haul back from the gloom of the COVID-19 shutdown. The question now is how long will it take to...
Department Stores have been on the way out for some ten years. But why? Tony Dimasi explains; he tells us where they succeed and more importantly, what the...
Little Guns are always hot! They are the stepping-stones to Big Gun status. What happens in them is always interesting because...
This is a really great insight with figures to back it up, as to why the shopping centre industry in Australia is the best in the world...
Australian shopping centres are in huge demand at the moment, and have been for some time...
