Poland — Regional Market index
docs(markets): fold five country co-location indices into their country pages -- Canada, United States, Spain, Italy, Poland each gain a 'Co-location anchor network' section carrying the merged page's anchor network, convergence pattern, tier description, and provenance verbatim; only the duplicated methodology See-also list and licence footer were dropped. Sources archived with superseded_by and redirected to their country page, 5 pre-existing redirects retargeted, and the co-location-tier-system table plus the category index repointed. Mexico and the Nordics deliberately NOT merged and remain live -- no atlas-mexico page exists, and the Nordics index spans five countries where only Norway has a country page, so forcing either merge would have misattributed its scope
@@ -49,8 +49,32 @@ Bielsko-Biała (suburb of Katowice) is Poland's only entry with two Tier 1 clust | Poczesna | Katowice | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | | Rumia | Gdańsk | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | ## Co-location anchor network The Poland Co-location Index evaluates commercial nodes across the Polish market using the [[co-location-methodology]] and the [[co-location-ranking-system|deterministic ranking system]]. Sites are evaluated where IKEA operates as the Primary Target [[co-location-anchors|anchor]], against secondary operators (Makro, Leroy Merlin) and tertiary civic infrastructure within defined catchment radii. Poland is one of the four markets covered in the [[co-location-tier-system|co-location tier system]]. ### Anchor Network IKEA operates approximately 12 stores in Poland, with locations in Warsaw (two stores), Kraków, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznań, Łódź, Katowice, Lublin, Bydgoszcz, Białystok, and Szczecin. Secondary anchors are densely distributed: Leroy Merlin (~60 locations), Makro (~40 Metro Cash & Carry locations), Castorama (~80 locations), and OBI (~50 locations). Poland's 24 major public universities and voivodeship capital hospitals provide tertiary infrastructure in the same cities as IKEA operations. ### Central European convergence density Poland's retail expansion through the 2010s and 2020s produced high-density co-location convergence, particularly in mid-sized cities (population 200,000–600,000) where a single commercial zone accommodates multiple large-format anchors. Cities such as Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Kraków combine IKEA presence with secondary anchor density and strong tertiary civic infrastructure, producing reliable District-tier conditions. ### District — high-validation commercial nodes A District-tier node in Poland pairs the IKEA primary anchor with a hardware or warehouse secondary — Leroy Merlin, Makro, Castorama, and OBI are the operators that most often satisfy this gate — top-quartile catchment population, and hospital access within the civic ring. The convergence of operators across categories confirms the site's commercial standing. *The site index for Poland, classified under the current tier system, is available at [gis.woodfinegroup.com](https://gis.woodfinegroup.com).* ### Provenance - **Verification:** Anchor network data sourced from OpenStreetMap records as of May 2026. ## See also - [[atlas-top-400-europe]] — the full European market set this page filters - [[about-regional-markets-system]] — the co-location methodology and market selection criteria - [[co-location-intelligence-overview]] — how this index feeds site-selection decisions - [[co-location-tier-system]] - [[co-location-methodology]] - [[co-location-ranking-system]]