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The buildings-and-places record for Woodfine Capital Projects Inc.: six development classes, the design system behind them, and the site-selection method built on established retail anchors. Articles span regional markets across North America and Europe, the planned development program, and the maps and data behind the analysis.

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Retail brand family taxonomy

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schema: foundry-doc-v1
title: "Retail Brand Family Taxonomy"
title: "Retail brand family taxonomy"
slug: retail-brand-family-taxonomy
category: site-selection
type: topic
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audience: customer-woodfine
bcsc_class: current-fact
language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC
last_edited: 2026-05-25
last_edited: 2026-07-11
editor: pointsav-engineering
short_description: "Every retail location on the co-location map carries a brand family classification that determines how the location is displayed and, for some families, whether it contributes to cluster scoring. The taxonomy was designed around the anchor types used in the co-location methodology while remaining extensible to the full range of ingested operators."
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Large-format general merchandise and grocery retailers operating facilities of 80,000 square feet or more. Includes Walmart Supercenter, Target, Carrefour Hypermarket, IKEA, and equivalents across [[atlas-tier-index-north-america|North American]] and [[atlas-tier-index-europe|European]] markets. Hypermarket stores are the primary anchor type in the co-location methodology — cluster formation requires one Hypermarket anchor. Displayed with a navy badge.

**Correction (2026-08-02, verified against canonical `origin/main:app-orchestration-
gis/SCORING-METHODOLOGY.md` V3):** IKEA belongs to a separate `ALPHA_LIFESTYLE`
anchor class in the real pipeline, kept structurally apart from Hypermarket so it
can independently satisfy the T1 gate's `(Warehouse ∧ Hypermarket) OR (Lifestyle ∧
Hypermarket)` logic — folding IKEA into Hypermarket here collapses that gate's
actual logic for a reader trying to understand it. This article also mixes
vocabulary from other systems ("first/second scoring criterion" is V2-era
sequential-scoring language, not V3's predicate gates; "tertiary scoring" borrows
the separate Five-Degree system's "Tertiary Target" term), reinforcing that it
blends several of this wiki's parallel tier systems rather than describing one
consistently. **Flagged, not resolved.**

### Hardware

Home improvement and building materials retailers. Includes Home Depot, Lowe's, Leroy Merlin, Canadian Tire, Hagebaumarkt, Praktiker, and regional equivalents. Hardware co-presence within the defined secondary radius of the primary anchor is the first scoring criterion in the co-location index. Displayed with an orange badge.
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