At nine stores operated by Balls Food Stores, between 9% and 19% of sales dollars are processed through self-checkout lanes, depending on the overall sales volume of the store, said Barb Ramsour, director of...
Even retailers that haven't joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership stand to gain from some new documents the EPA has just released. GreenChill, which was...
It may not appear so to the casual observer, but the typical refrigeration system in a supermarket is a fragile and complicated network of machines that requires a great deal of attention to function properly...
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is writing a new voluntary standard for supermarket refrigeration equipment aimed at reducing the perennial problem of refrigerant...
ORLANDO, Fla. Befitting the importance of energy and environmental topics to food retailers, the Food Marketing Institute's annual Energy & Technical Services Conference drew its usual robust crowd of retail engineers...
A Cub Foods store in St. Paul, Minn., operated by Supervalu, will be the first supermarket to receive Gold-Level Certification for its advanced refrigeration technology from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&...
Evolving refrigeration technologies and regulations as well as rising energy costs were among the most pressing issues facing retail energy and equipment executives gathered last week at the Food Marketing Institute's...
Dave Godwin, environmental engineer for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, said the agency expects that its proposed revision of its leak-rate regulation for supermarket refrigeration will be...
Giant Eagle and Harris Teeter were recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership yesterday for having the best emission leak rates among the supermarket...
A number of issues remain unresolved pertaining to the 2010 phaseout of HCFC refrigerants, said Sheila Millar, partner, Keller and Heckman, Washington, who spoke yesterday at the Food Marketing Institute’s...