Case Study: Grocery Outlet achieves refrigeration savings and demand response benefits with Axiom Cloud

Grocery Outlet - Customer Case Study

Grocery Outlet, a leading value supermarket chain, faced significant challenges in managing its refrigeration assets across over 400 stores. Issues like unplanned outages, refrigerant leaks, and a high volume of difficult-to-prioritize alarms were impacting operations and leading to spoilage and high maintenance costs. They piloted Axiom Cloud's apps, Facilities Analyzer and Virtual Technician, seeking a more efficient way to predict and prevent these problems.

Axiom Cloud's solution provided predictive maintenance and autonomous problem-solving for the refrigeration systems at two pilot stores. The apps detected several critical anomalies, including a refrigerant leak and compressor issues, resulting in a projected $26,988 in savings over three months. Axiom Cloud also demonstrated its Virtual Battery app's ability to autonomously shed load for demand response, unlocking significant utility incentives and paving the way for a broader, utility-funded rollout across California.

Grocery Outlet

Frank Davis

Director of Refrigeration Engineering