You're standing in a supermarket aisle after closing. Twenty open-front chillers stare back at you. Every night, someone on your team walks the floor and pulls down the night blind on each one. It takes maybe a minute per case — not exactly back-breaking work. But multiply that by 365 days and you'r
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The Night Shift: When Your Refrigeration System Works Overtime For supermarket and convenience store operators, the close of business does not mean the end of refrigeration challenges. In fact, when the lights go out and the doors lock, a critical vulnerability emerges in open vertical chillers and f