Shaw’s Supermarkets Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction

The retail grocery business is highly energy intensive. Grocery stores are huge spaces that must be heated, cooled and lighted around the clock. The storage and display of frozen and refrigerated foods creates large cooling loads, even in winter, and the transportation of food from distribution centers to stores puts a fleet of large trucks in motion around the clock. In other words, behind every grocery store lies a great deal of fossil fuel combustion.

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