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A people counter pays for itself through four channels: re-timed labour, recovered peak sales, marketing spend you stop wasting, and evidence at the rent table. Here's the payback maths, worked in AUD for a small store.

Cafés live and die in two-hour windows. Here's how foot-traffic analytics changes how you staff the rush, catch walk-aways at the door, and turn the footpath outside into your cheapest growth channel.

A retail lease is a multi-year bet on one number nobody verifies: how many people actually walk past. Here's how to measure a site's real foot traffic before you sign — and how to use the same data at every rent review after.

Ten questions that separate a people counter you'll trust from one you'll unplug — accuracy verification, privacy, outdoor counting, staff filtering, pricing models and the hidden costs vendors don't lead with.

Most advice on increasing foot traffic is a list of 25 tactics and no way to tell which one moved the needle. Here's how to treat your shopfront like a funnel, fix the biggest leak first, and measure every change like an online store would.

Labour is your store's biggest controllable cost. Here's how to roster retail and café staff to real foot-traffic data instead of the register — with Australian penalty rates in mind.

The AI that maps physical space is becoming one of the fastest-growing markets in tech. Here's how the same stack powering robots and 3D world models reaches the shopfront — and why the stores that connect to it first will run on evidence.

Spatial intelligence turns the movement of people through physical space into data retailers can act on. Here's what it means, why it matters in 2026, and how BitOculus brings it to the shopfront.

Are people counting cameras legal in Australia and under GDPR? How anonymous on-device AI counting differs from CCTV, what the Privacy Act requires, and a privacy checklist for choosing a people counter.

The four foot traffic metrics every physical store should track — capture rate, true conversion, bounce rate and power hours — with formulas, benchmarks and the decisions each one drives.