### Comment:
Retail corps pay people to do this for competitive intelligence.

### REPLY:
Hell, these days there are companies out there that do automated car counts in parking lots from daily satellite images.  Hedge funds will pay for the data. 
  
 [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-value-satellite-images-investing/586009/](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-value-satellite-images-investing/586009/)

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