Using Store Setup

• Tabular data—Choose this option if your store data is in a tabular format such as a spreadsheet or .dbf file.
• Map-ready data—Choose this option if your data is contained in a standard ArcGIS file format such as a shapefile or geodatabase.
• Create an empty layer—Choose this option to create an empty store layer so that you can manually build your store attribute table and place locations on the map.
• Enter stores' addresses—Choose this option to manually add store addresses one at a time and create a store layer.
• XY/GPS data—Choose this option to add store locations by longitude (x) and latitude (y) coordinates in decimal degrees and create a store layer.
• Run Address Coder—Choose this option to create a store layer while appending additional demographic attributes during the geocoding process or when using advanced selection options. See the Address Coder help for more information.

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It is important to note for Business Analyst to analyze your stores, each one must be uniquely identified. If you don't have a field in your database that has a unique name or number for each store, Business Analyst can create it for you.

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After the store layer has been created, a shapefile of your data is created and stored in the My Output Data\Projects\Your Project\StoreLayers folder.