Small Dutch retailers focus more on green retailing

Many small business companies in The Netherlands move toward to the trend of sustainable retailing, this is the result of a research of EIM. (Dutch Market Retail Institute). Small business retailers are looking for environmental products and service, they want to strengthen their market position and want to fill in the consumer demands in green retailing.

The actual crisis does not effect to much the focus on green retailing, the clients are looking for these sustainable products. The research shows that the client gets more and more demanding on their wished of green products. That is why the small retailers continuous look for these alternative products.

On the other side the retailers are looking to reduce costs, in the practise they rather do not spend extra money on sustainable products, this factor slows a bit the development in green retailing. Saving energy and reducing energy costs is high on the list of the of priorities in green retailing, a good lighthing plan of LED lights can reduce the total energy costs.

Hiper Paiz (Wal-Mart) opens sustainable supermarket in Guatemala

After the news of Wal-Mart of introducing the eco-labels into their supermarket last week, this week they have news about the opening of a new green hypermarket in Central America. This new sustainable supermarket is located in Guatemala and is known under the name Hiper Paiz Hypermarket.

Planet Retail explains the special sustainable features this new 6,400 square metres big stores has. Wal-Mart has choosen to apply 25 different sustainability initiatives into this story focusing to save energy and water and reduce the level of waste. This new supermarket is foreseen of a LED lighting plan to lower the energy consumption and vary the consumption during the day. Humidity controls improve the condition of the fresh products. They introduced hydro-saving devices to reduce the level of water production and the supermarket is foreseen of a system of cardboard and plastic recycling points.

New generation green supermarket Tengelmann Klimarkt

Tengelmann opened half a year ago their first Tengelmann Klimamarkt. This follows the objective that the supermarket chain Tengelmann gave itself. Before 2020 they want to reduce to the level of CO2-emissions with at least 20 per cent. Environmental and natural solutions to save the environment.

Their newest Klimamarkt can be seen as an example of an environmental-friendly store. This green supermarket uses 50% less energy than the traditional supermarket and they also succeeded to reduce the emission of CO2 to almost the level of 0.

What did they do and how did they do it? This green supermarket of the newest generation, warmth is being used to transform it into energy, the cooling and refrigeration departments have environmental-friendly furniture with all the doors closed. Furthermore there was a lighting plan created, were LED-lighting could promote the products, make them more sustainable and reduce the level of energy.

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