Thermal comfort in the supermarket environment – multiple enquiry methods and simultaneous measurements of the thermal environment
Journal article, 2017

In the supermarket environment three factors must be considered: food (food quality), personnel (working conditions), and customers. The customers do not remain in this environment very long but are of particular interest since they constitute the supermarket's commercial basis. However, there are no recommendations on the indoor environment based on this category. This study compares the perceived indoor thermal environment with simultaneous objective measurements of the thermal environment and includes multiple enquiry methods. These methods have been used for this specific environment in order to understand how customers perceive, evaluate, and prefer variations in the thermal environment. Measurements were performed in summer and winter in front of twelve display cabinets, over 1100 questionnaires have been received. To provide recommendations, this study presents measured and perceived comfort in supermarkets, information which can be used for prescribing suitable thermal environments for customers.

Display cabinet

Supermarket

Environment

Thermal analysis

Comfort

Author

Ulla Lindberg

University of Borås

Chalmers, Energy and Environment

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Per Fahlén

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Building Services Engineering

Monica Axell

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Niklas Fransson

University of Gothenburg

International Journal of Refrigeration

0140-7007 (ISSN)

Vol. 82 426-435

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

DOI

10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2017.06.020

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3/22/2022