The fridges and freezers are all failing at my local Sainsbury’s. The staff are frantically trying to empty them all.
The fridges and freezers are all failing at my local Sainsbury’s. The staff are frantically trying to empty them all.
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Local Aldi had this as well, they had to dispose of loads of food. Every single fridge out of action. Freezers just about hanging in.
Was like this in sainsburys in cheadle today too
Same in sainsburys where I work near
Lots of reports of them failing in this area as well
Are we all using the same Sainsbury’s?!
My Sainsbury’s is the same.
At first I thought it was to keep the food cool by having them covered somewhat.
I’m really happy that I was off today at work.
**Welcome, boys and girls, to the exciting world of refrigeration climate classes!**
All refrigeration systems have a temperature range in which they work best. Operating outside these ranges puts strain on the system and increasingly causes them to break entirely. A device can be built to span several of these ranges, but obviously costs more because it has to be over designed to an extent.
The climate classes are:
SN: Subnormal units can operate between +10°C and +32°C.
N: Normal units can operate between +16°C and +32°C.
ST: Subtropical units can operate between +16°C and +38°C.
T: Tropical units can operate between +16°C and +43°C.
Most units in the UK are SN or N.
Going forwards, we need units that are potentially SN-ST or SN-T, because we seem to be enjoying arctic air excursions AND massive heatwaves. Cooling system exhausts/heat exchangers need to be in the shade, on the north sides of buildings, not on the roof in the full sun, to at least give them a fighting chance.
The cold rooms at my work broke today. I told estates and management they should expect this after the heat of 2019. Adaptation measures taken? None. Research samples and materials lost? Probably quite a lot.
Refrigeration machines have an optimal range of temperatures, welcome to the other side of that!
My local Sainsburys exactly the same too. North Yorks
Sainsbury’s freezers in Stevenage go down like clockwork at this time every year. Do they upgrade them? Do they fuck. But they have built a nice new sushi counter, so there’s that…
Everything in England is built and run assuming temps will never exceed 35C, and that it will never snow or go below -10C. The train system collapses anytime we hit above 35. 3cm of snow are sufficient to stop the country for two days.
Guess how much it will cost to replace all the infrastructure that breaks (even quite recent one), have machines that can run both in extreme heat and fairly decent cold (an increase in the average temp also comes with more extreme weather phenomena), and gear up to fight against natural phenomena such as wildfires, draughts, floods etc…
Welcome to global warming. And to people who will try to sell you that “England can gain from GW, it will become a pleasant Mediterranean climate!”
Remember when Trump said it was going to get colder soon in response to climate scientists warning about these very risks., I believe he said they don’t even know, they’ll see. I wonder how much longer deniers will continue outright lying and pretending the evidence isn’t all around us.
What’s for dinner?
Happened at Sudbury Tesco as well.
Sainsbury’s worker here. I work nights but was day off last night, my gf who works there sent me pictures. All fridges and freezers are down on the shop floor and the warehouse. Everything has had to be disposed of.
It got so hot outside it set off the petrol station fire suppression system.
Atm there is not a single fresh item on the system as we’ve had to clear it all out, bag it up and send it off.
The freezers on the shop floor came back on at about 6am but not sure about the status of the freezer in the warehouse but it had a full delivery in there for me to work tonight. Apparently if you keep the door closed it can stay frozen for up to 24 hours, not sure if it’s back up and running though