Our door is always open to customers who want to come in and see all the amazing technology that Currys has to offer, but word on the street is that the average high street automatic door spends 64% of trading time opening or closing*.
It’s a life of perpetual motion, none more so than for our stores on Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road in central London, with tens-of-thousands of shoppers passing by our stores each day.
Whilst we’d love everyone who walks past to be greeted with an open door and come in and have a look at the latest air-fryer or washing machines, sadly sometimes our doors slide open, and no one walks through – how sad!
As you might imagine, this continual opening-and-closing doesn't sit right with us, due to the environmental and financial cost of powering such endless movement. So, how do we prevent this from happening all day long? We are a tech company, and love using innovative tech to solve our problems. And so, we teamed up with our partners at FAAC Entrance Solutions, to devise an energy efficient, temperature controlling and cost competitive solution which works better for the planet, our customers and for us! We’re already seeing great improvements in energy efficiency as a result in two of our London stores.
The energy savings have exceeded our expectations: our Oxford Street store has seen an impressive 15% energy saving output during a five-month period, allowing us to retain 12,565 kWh in the process.
It’s small changes like this which can amount to huge savings across the business – and make an important contribution to our mission to becoming Net Zero by 2040.
*FAAC Entrance Solutions
