Air conditioning for shops and retail

Comfortable and productive

In retail spaces, providing a comfortable shopping experience for customers, and a productive working environment for employees is crucial. With over 90% of our time spent indoors¹, it’s important to provide well-conditioned air to ensure comfort and well-being of everyone in your store. Furthermore, as sustainability and energy efficiency² becomes a top priority for many in the retail industry, choosing the right climate control solution can be a daunting task.

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With our comprehensive range of commercial climate solutions and tailored advice, we can help you find the right climate system for your store: whether it’s a busy supermarket, an intimate boutique, a sprawling department store, or anything in between.

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Comfortable shopping is key

As we mentioned before, when it comes to retail spaces, creating a pleasant shopping experience is essential for customer satisfaction and loyalty. In fact, the quality of your indoor environment could affect your customers’ decision to make a purchase or not³. Temperature control is a critical aspect of your indoor environment. To make things more challenging, different zones can require different temperatures: protecting your cashiers from cold drafts from outside while keeping perishables from spoiling, or ensuring changing rooms are warm enough to try on clothes. Fortunately, we offer a variety of (bespoke) temperature control solutions.

Indoor air quality is crucial

Investing in your indoor air quality is no luxury: in fact, poor air quality may lead to health problems for your employees⁴ and have a negative impact on the shopping experience⁵, potentially affecting productivity and sales alike, as well as leading to mould and decay that could harm the building's structure. Proper ventilation, filtration, and humidity control can remove harmful pollutants and allergens from the air, keeping it clean and conditioned. Furthermore, some of Samsung's indoor units features air purification panels consisting of advanced filters that recirculate air within a room and can catch harmful particles (such as dust⁶ and certain kinds of bacteria⁷). This can help to keep indoor air cleaner, resulting in a healthier environment for shoppers and employees alike.

Style is a must

The challenge for today’s retailers is to create a store atmosphere that is coherent with their store design: store atmospherics can produce behavioural responses in customers, affecting the time they spend in stores and their willingness to make a purchase alike⁸. That’s why our range of climate control solutions features a variety of aesthetically pleasing solutions, such as our 360 Cassette indoor air conditioning unit.

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Cost reduction and sustainability matter

With energy costs fluctuating and many businesses aiming to be climate-neutral by 2050, reducing your energy usage (and thus costs) might be a priority for your retail business. The good news: controlling your energy use to reduce costs doesn’t have to be complicated or require unpleasant compromises. A variety of our climate control solutions allow you to review your energy usage and influence it, with many of our products featuring energy-saving technology. For example, Smart Control solutions such as our B.IoT, and SmartThings app⁹ help you monitor, report, and optimize your use of energy.

¹ Source: Combined or multiple exposure to health stressors in indoor built environments, World Health Organisation (2013) - https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/350495/WHO-EURO-2014-4523-44286-62555-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

² Source: Climate sustainability in retail | McKinsey, McKinsey and Company, 2022 - https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/climate-sustainability-in-retail-who-will-pay

³ Source: Dang, V.T., Nguyen, N. and Wang, J. (2021), "The impact of retailers' indoor environmental quality on consumer purchase decision", International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management - https://researchers.cdu.edu.au/en/publications/the-impact-of-retailers-indoor-environmental-quality-on-consumer-

⁴ Source: Robert, L., Guichard, R., Klingler, J., Cochet, V. and Mandin, C. (2021), Indoor air quality in shopping and storage areas. Indoor Air - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33368664/

⁵ As discussed in our whitepaper, Enhanced Indoor Air Quality for Office Buildings (2020) - https://images.samsung.com/is/content/samsung/assets/global/p6-b2b/pilot/climate/air-purification-panel-2020/Samsung_Climate_Solutions_Whitepape_-_Importance_of_Indoor_Air_Quality_in_Office_Buildings2.pdf

⁶ Verified by Intertek, Report Number RT20E-S0010-R, Issue Date:17 April 2020 The K-element(Electrostatic Precipitator) of Samsung Electronics can sterilize the microorganisms that are collected on the filter (Escherichia coli: above 99 %, Staphylococcus aureus: above 99 %). This filter captures ultra-fine dust up to 0.3μm in size. The PM 1.0 air purification filter is available on the WindFree™ Pure, and as an accessory for the 360 cassette, 4-way cassette and 1-way cassette.

⁷ Verified by Intertek testing samples of Samsung AR9500T in a continuous airflow condition (to KS K 0693:2016 protocol using bacteriophage MS2 virus ATCC 15597-B1 and Escherichia coli strain C3000 ATCC 15597) and antiviral Tri-Care Filter (to Samsung-defined test criteria using Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538 and Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 4352). Our products have not been tested for their effects on the COVID-19 virus. Therefore, we do not make or give any express or implied claims or guarantees with regard to COVID-19. It is only available on the WindFree™ Elite and Avant models.

⁸ As discussed in our whitepaper, The Indoor Climate Solution of tomorrow for the Retail Sector (2021) - https://www.samsung.com/uk/business/climate/indoor-climate-solution-retail/

⁹ A Wi-Fi connection and Samsung SmartThings application account are required. Wi-Fi Kit to be ordered separately. Requires iOS 10.0 or later & Android 5.0 or later. Additional requirements may be needed to apply SmartThings for medium-sized to large commercial buildings. For details, contact a Samsung representative.

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