What we track for your shop
When you run a shop, your time goes to the counter and the stockroom, not to the place down the road quietly changing its range, its prices, or its latest promotion. Each week SpotMove checks the rivals you picked and sends you one short email with everything that changed, so you can keep your shelves and your pricing sharp.
Price and promotion changes
When a nearby shop reprices a popular line, runs a weekend sale, or launches a loyalty deal, you want to know before your regulars do the comparison for you. We follow the prices and offers your competitors publish on their websites and listings and flag the moves worth a look.
New products and ranges
A competitor bringing in a new brand, a seasonal range, or a product line you do not carry tells you where local taste is heading and what customers will start asking for. We pick up new products as they appear on competitor sites and pages, so you can stock ahead of the trend rather than chase it.
Opening hours and the basics
Small operational changes say a lot when customers shop on convenience. A rival adding Sunday opening, extending late nights, or updating its phone and address can shift where footfall goes. We flag changes to hours, contact details, and business status as they happen.
Quiet website updates
Not every change is announced. A reworked product page, a new webshop link, a freshly written page about a range, these are the moves a competitor makes without a word. We scan their websites and tell you what was added, removed, or rewritten, down to whether a page grew or shrank.
Reviews worth knowing about
Reviews pull shoppers toward one door over another, so each week we watch your rivals' Google reviews: how many new ones they pulled in, which way their rating is drifting, and any that land at two stars or below. A competitor on a strong run, or one taking a public hit, is something you want to see early.
Who is hiring
When a competitor starts advertising for shop staff, a manager, or extra weekend hands, it usually means they are expanding, opening longer, or struggling to keep a team together. We catch the vacancies they post on their site and on social, so you read the ambition or the strain behind the hire.
And the full report attached to each email lays out the rivals you chose side by side: current rating and follower count, how those moved this week, and who is running Facebook and Instagram ads right now.
Three steps to your first report.
Find your business.
Enter your postcode and business name, and we pull your profile straight from Google Maps. It takes a few seconds, with no long forms and no account to set up first. Whether you run a restaurant, a salon, a trade, or a shop, if local customers can find you, we can find you too.
Choose who to watch.
We show you the other businesses nearby in your category, and you pick the ones you actually compete with. There is no algorithm guessing on your behalf. You know your street better than any tool does, so you start with a few names and adjust the list whenever you like as your competition changes.
Get your weekly email.
Your first 30 days are free, so you see the value before you pay anything. Every week a short email lands with every move your competitors made, across their Google profile, website, social, and reviews. It takes a minute to read, with the full report attached whenever you want more detail.