What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National business registers and chambers of commerce; municipal trading/opening-hours permits; alcohol and tobacco retail licence… | Per establishment/premises, with licence type, holder and validity dates | public |
| employment & workforce | Retail chains' HR and workforce-management systems (Kronos/UKG, Reflexis); national statistics offices and labour force surveys; retail… | Per employee shift/roster internally; headcount and hours by NACE class… | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Google Maps/Places, Trustpilot, Yelp, Facebook; retailer app store reviews; consumer satisfaction surveys (e.g. national consumer… | Per review per store with rating and text; aggregated store rating; brand-level… | public |
| financial filings | Listed grocery groups filing annual/quarterly reports; national company registers (Companies House, Bundesanzeiger, INPI) holding… | Per legal entity per year (some quarterly), including like-for-like sales and… | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Food safety authorities publishing inspection results and hygiene ratings; RASFF and national recall portals; retailers' insurers and… | Per inspection per premises; per recall notice per product; per incident/claim… | public |
| waste & emissions | Retail chains' sustainability reporting (CSRD/GRI), food-waste redistribution platforms (Too Good To Go, FareShare, foodbank networks)… | Tonnes of food waste per year per company or per store; per-collection weights… | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Official food control laboratories and authorities (EFSA/national pesticide residue and contaminant monitoring); retailers' own-brand… | Per sample per product per test; per supplier site audit per year; per premises… | public |
| transactional/sales | Supermarket and convenience chains (Tesco, Carrefour, Ahold Delhaize), their loyalty-card programmes; POS system vendors; market… | Per transaction / per basket line item at store level; aggregated weekly per… | purchasable |
| pricing | Retailers' own price files and e-commerce sites; price-scraping and comparison vendors (Profitero, Wiser, Assosia); national statistics… | Per SKU per store (or per banner/region) per day; CPI collection monthly per… | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Mobile location-data brokers (Placer.ai, Unacast, SafeGraph-type providers); store-location directories and OSM; geomarketing firms (CACI… | Per store point-of-interest; visit counts and dwell time per store per day… | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Loyalty-programme operators (Tesco Clubcard/dunnhumby, Carrefour, Albert Heijn Bonus); consumer household panels (Kantar Worldpanel, GfK… | Per loyalty household with purchase history; per panel household weekly… | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Retail chain ERP/replenishment systems (SAP, Oracle Retail); distribution centres; GS1 product master data pools; suppliers receiving EDI… | Per SKU per store per day (stock on hand, on-order, shrink); per DC per shipment | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Store operators and refrigeration/BMS vendors (Danfoss, Carel, Emerson); in-store people-counting and camera analytics providers… | Per fridge/freezer case or door, per minute/15-minute temperature and alarm… | partnership |
| energy consumption | Store operators and their energy management providers; electricity suppliers and DSOs holding smart-meter data; retailers'… | Half-hourly per meter per site internally; annual kWh totals and kWh/m²… | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Retailer-owned DC networks and their transport management systems; 3PL carriers serving grocery (e.g. STEF, Kuehne+Nagel for chilled)… | Per shipment/pallet/roll-cage, per delivery route per vehicle per day | partnership |
| weather-dependent metrics | Retailers' demand-forecasting teams pairing sales with meteorological feeds; weather data vendors (Meteo services, DTN) selling retail… | Daily per store weather observation joined to daily category sales | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Grocery e-commerce and click-and-collect platforms of chains; store footfall analytics vendors and shopping-centre landlords measuring… | Per delivery/collection slot per store per day; footfall/occupancy per store… | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Retail media networks run by grocers (Tesco Media, Carrefour Links, Ahold Delhaize); leaflet/flyer aggregators (Kaufda, Bonial, Tiendeo)… | Per campaign per SKU (impressions, redemption, uplift); per promotional leaflet… | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Facilities-management contractors and refrigeration service firms; CMMS platforms used by chains; equipment OEM service records | Per asset (fridge case, HVAC unit, checkout) per work order/service visit | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.