There is a reason Airius fans are the WORLD STANDARD in thermal comfort for supermarkets & grocery stores.
It’s no secret that effective cooling, heating and “thermal comfort” in a supermarket / grocery store is extremely important.
If it’s too COLD or too WARM, you risk:
- Customer & staff discomfort
- Less aisle linger time (especially in cold aisles!)
- Fewer sales
- More wastage / spoilage
- Increased energy costs (from fridges working harder)
- Unsightly door condensation (hiding products, reducing sales)
- Fewer repeat customers
- and MORE…
Read on to discover how installing Airius fans resulted in a 30% INCREASE IN SALES for other supermarkets and grocery stores around the world…
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Getting your grocery store’s thermal comfort and destratification right could save you thousands.
Everyone knows how supermarket refrigerator aisles feel. Cold! Uncomfortably cold.
The key concern of all supermarket operators who want to improve the thermal comfort in their cold aisles is that some areas of the store – namely, the inside of the cold cases – need to remain stratified.
Any air movement around the cold case will have significant negative impact on food quality, energy use of the fridge cases, and condensation. Apart from being unsightly, this condensation on the outside of fridges can also create slip hazards, introducing another type of risk to the supermarket owner.
These costs, or risks can be very, very costly…
- How many tens of thousands of dollars of food can be in one fridge case?
- What is the energy cost of a fridge running inefficiently multiplied by ten or twenty fridges a store?
- How much will a slip-and-fall lawsuit cost you in legal fees?
Supermarket destratification is becoming standard practice in supermarket and retail outlets all over the world, to help improve customer comfort and reduce energy costs.
But there can be a negative impact on the overall air-conditioning in the store if the destratification process is not correctly implemented. Airius has been helping customers achieve this goal with the world’s leading destratification fan system for almost 20 years.
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Understanding Destratification
Stratification is the tendency for hot air to rise towards the ceiling in large buildings with tall ceilings, and grocery stores often face this problem due to the variety of temperatures present in the store.
From the cold cases to the deli, with the front doors opening and closing for every new customer, maintaining a consistent temperature is tough. Without a destratification system, a badly stratified grocery store can be an awfully unpleasant place to work or shop.
- Fogging on exterior glass of case doors?
- Slip hazards at entrances?
Destratification can help here, too! Airius helps solve issues with stratified air with a line of high-impact destratification fans.
Our sales team is ready to help you understand the movement of air in your store to benefit supermarket cooling and heating and recommend a selection of fans that suit your specific needs.
Not only will an Airius fan make your store more comfortable for your employees and patrons by equalising the temperature, it can significantly reduce HVAC bills by reducing the cooling load during the summer and recirculating warm air to the floor during winter.
Airius owns a utility patent on two key components of the Air Pear, the stator and venturi nozzle. This patent allow us to build a product that, unlike a ceiling fan, provides a narrow column of air that can be directed. This is a crucial component of grocery store destratification, as these components are built so that they will not interfere with open cold cases.
Airius fans can be installed in both dropped ceilings or an exposed structure.
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Encourage Lingering in the Aisle
With energy prices on the rise, savvy supermarket owners need to do everything they can to reduce costs and increase customer spending to maximise profits.
As well as encouraging longer linger-time in aisles (meaning larger spend), Airius fans offer many other benefits including:
- Improved comfort levels for staff and customers
- Up to 35% savings on heating and cooling costs
- Up to 50% reduction in carbon emissions
- An average ROI of under 24 months
- Low running costs
- Recycles heat from existing equipment
- Works seamlessly with existing HVAC systems
- Reduces HVAC maintenance costs
- Significantly reduces condensation
- Eliminates cabinet fogging
- Dries spills and leakages quickly
- Increases lighting lifespan
- Recirculates heat
Airius fans are sleek, stylish and unobtrusive, and can be seamlessly installed into any ceiling type, without the typical considerations needed with other large blade fans.
Take a look at some of our previous supermarket and retail installations:
Case Studies
Save energy – up to 30% off supermarket cooling & heating bills
Increase comfort for customers and staff
Unique bespoke supermarket models
Improve your HVAC efficiency
Quiet models for sound-sensitive installations
Unobtrusive in-ceiling kit option
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Woolworths, Williamstown, VIC
Benefits of Airius Cooling & Destratification for Grocery Stores
Similar Applications
- Up to 35% reduction of heating costs
- Up to 30% reduction of cooling costs
- Massive improvement in cold aisle comfort
- No negative impact on fridge cases
- Increased consumer dwell time in cold aisles
- Increased comfort for employees and visitors
- Balances temperatures in supermarket
- Simple installation
- Utilises process heat, lighting and solar gain
- Reduced run time on existing HVAC equipment
- Reduced internal condensation and wet floors
- Reduced ceiling temperatures increasing lighting lifespan
- PHI units help mitigate odours, mould,viruses, bacteria and VOCs
- Entrances & Vestibules
- Bathrooms (Great PHI application)
- Cart Storage Areas (Great PHI application)
- Back of House
- Loading Docks
- Bar & Dinning Areas
- Distribution Centers
- Convenience Stores
