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Budget frozen food retailer Iceland Foods is reducing the amount of chilled food it sells to try to lower the business’s energy bills.
The supermarket chain is stocking more room-temperature products instead of chilled, Chairman Richard Walker said in a phone interview. Iceland is also using more modern fridges, putting doors on warehouse fridges and putting solar panels on stores and warehouses to be more energy efficient.
The grocer will continue to focus on frozen goods which are seeing higher sales as shoppers try to save money and cut down on food waste.
“We probably got a bit carried away in the pandemic with the amount of chilled products we had available so we’re just really scaling our chilled proposition back slightly,†Richard Ewen, Iceland’s finance director, said on the same call. Switching off some of the fridges is “a big energy saving,†he said.