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Smart solutions for convenience stores and small format retail

Smarter retail for every store size

The retail landscape is changing rapidly, and small format stores, C-stores, and food shops need to keep pace. From reducing energy costs to creating seamless customer experiences, the right technology makes all the difference.

Danfoss refrigeration and smart store solutions are designed to help retailers effortlessly achieve optimal energy efficiency, food safety, and compliance. Whether you run a single shop or a chain of stores, our comprehensive portfolio ensures reliable and efficient smart shop solutions tailored to your needs.

Smart store To-Go: The easy way to build a smart convenience store

Smart refrigeration for every store size

Small format stores and convenience stores face unique challenges: limited space, high energy use, and the need to stay competitive in fast-moving markets. That is why Danfoss offers Smart Store To-Go: convenient, efficient, and reliable c-store refrigeration and monitoring for optimum food safety. Whether you run one location or multiple sites, our smart shop solutions help you improve efficiency, cut energy costs, and provides everything needed for easy and fast selection, installation, and service .

Why choose our small format store and c-store solutions?

Our comprehensive portfolio of productsand services are designed to help you improve food safety, optimize operations, and boost energy efficiency—24/7. And the best part? It’s simple. With a broad selection of components, controls, and our scalable cloud-based monitoring and management system, you can find a solution that is tailored to meet your needs.

Key benefits of our solutions:

Energy-efficient refrigeration and HVAC that lower costs and carbon footprint.
Convenience store monitoring solutions for real-time performance insights.
Scalable systems that grow with your business, from single shops to nationwide chains.
Improved uptime and reliability, ensuring customers always find what they need.

Discover how Smart Store To-Go is already helping both global convenience store chains and small format stores succeed — read more below.

Food retail solutions in action

Watch our food retail solutions video series that showcases end-to-end Danfoss solutions across key food retail applications, supporting the journey toward more sustainable and energy-efficient stores.

Small format stores

Smart store To-Go: for independent C-stores and small format shops

As many small format stores struggle to keep up with increasing demands for food safety, documentation, and energy efficiency, so do their requirements for connectivity, compliance, smart convenience store monitoring, easy installation and service. Additionally, independent c-stores and small food shops often need flexible and affordable options that deliver big impact without large-scale investment.

Smart Store To-Go is designed exactly for this purpose as your one-stop-shop for plug-and-play refrigeration solutions dedicated to helping small format stores boost food safety, optimize operations, and increase energy savings.

From cold rooms to refrigerators and freezers, our solutions cover most small store applications and are easily customizable to the individual needs of each store.

We have decades of experience supporting the commercial refrigeration and food retail sector with proven smart shop solutions. Our technology powers thousands of small format stores operations worldwide, helping food retailers and c-store owners improve system efficiency while ensuring food safety.

Benefits for small format stores:

Everything needed for easy as fast selection, installation, and service.
Optimized store performance ensures reliable refrigeration, stable temperatures, and reduced energy bills.
Smart features like app-based monitoring improve daily operations.

Big and small stores

The small format store solutions training program is designed to give better understanding of the Danfoss Small Store portfolio, electronics, and solutions. Ready to get started?

Useful resources for small format stores

Your digital toolbelt To-Go infographic

All the tools and information you need for easy and fast selection, installation, and service of plug-and-play cooling solutions. Customized to your customers' individual needs.

Quick selection guide for cold room condensing units

Looking for your perfect match? Check out our 5-step quick guide for selecting just the right condensing unit for your cold room application.

Tools and apps

Upgrade your digital toolbelt

Having the right tool is half the job, so why not upgrade your digital toolbelt? With Ref Tools and CoolSelector®2, fast and easy component selection and refrigeration system set-up is available at your fingertips.

Open Coolselector®2

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C-store solutions

Smart store To-Go: for convenience store chains

High operational costs, complex maintenance, and requirements for food safety and energy efficiency are among the challenges facing convenience multiples and forecourt operators. And with technology driving the c-store of the future, the playing field is only becoming more complex.

For retail chains, consistency and scale are crucial. Smart Store To-Go enables cost-efficient, plug-and-play energy and monitoring solutions to optimize operations, boost your bottom-line performance across multiple locations, and give you peace of mind.

Our extensive range of refrigeration components, and monitoring solutions are tailored for convenience store chains and easily customized to the individual needs of each store. You can count on Smart Store To-Go solutions to ensure fast and easy specification, commissioning, and maintenance.

Our extensive range of components, C-store solutions, and support tailored for refrigeration equipment in convenience store chains and easily customized to the individual needs of each store. This means you can count on Smart Store To-Go solutions to ensure fast and easy specification, commissioning, and maintenance.

C store solutions:

Centralized convenience store monitoring solutions across all stores.
Standardized c-store solutions that help roll out best practices quickly and uniformly.
Data-driven optimization enables better decision-making for energy savings and sustainability goals.
Future-ready design that supports digital transformation and regulatory compliance.

Useful resources for C-store solutions

Bottom-line boosting solutions

Danfoss Smart Store To-Go helps you reduce complexity of store operations while providing the data-driven foundation for you to: prevent food loss, cut maintenance time and costs and increase energy savings.

Plug-and-play portfolio

Explore some of the many solutions, services, and support available to you with Smart Store To-Go—and find out how our one-stop-shop can boost both your business and your peace of mind.

Components and controls catalogue for CO₂ applications

The Danfoss CO₂ catalog showcases components for CO₂ refrigeration, including innovative solutions like Multi Ejectors™. It emphasizes CO₂'s environmental benefits as a natural refrigerant for sustainable refrigeration.

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Inspiration

Discover the Cooling United support hub

Visit Cooling United to find documentation, videos, FAQs, tools, apps, support, and much more—all in one place.

See Danfoss products in action with our product animations

Check out our collection of refrigeration and air conditioning product animations to see how our products work.

Case studies

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