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
Small format and convenience stores face unique challenges: limited space, high energy use, and the need to stay competitive in fast-moving markets. That is why we’ve developed Smart Store To-Go: innovative, plug-and-play C store solutions that simplify operations and deliver reliable convenience store monitoring solutions. Whether you run one location or multiple sites, our smart shop solutions help you improve efficiency, cut energy costs, and unlock new opportunities to engage your customers.
Smart Store To-Go: 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.
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
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.
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Related products
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Refrigeration temperature sensors are used for applications within air-conditioning as well as commercial and industrial refrigeration applications. The Pt 1000 sensor element meets the DIN/IES 751 class B requirements and ensures an accurate and reliable temperature signal applicable for regulation, safety, and data logging.
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Refrigeration pressure transmitters are used for commercial air-conditioning and for commercial and industrial refrigeration applications. They are made in stainless steel to be compatible with fluorinated and natural refrigerants and laser welding with no soft seals ensure hermetic tightness for decades.
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OptymaTM ranges of condensing units match your commercial refrigeration application needs, with their unique versatility and simplicity to install. Multi-refrigerants, using low-GWP and natural refrigerants, highly efficient, they are a perfect fit for small to mid-size cold rooms, display cabinets, milk cooling tanks, fermentation rooms and much more.
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Danfoss offers a complete system for monitoring and optimizing any commercial refrigeration solution, such as for instance glass door merchandisers, air dryers, cold rooms, trucks and trailers.
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Danfoss offers a complete range of direct and servo-operated solenoid valves for air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The easy-to-service EVR® valves can be used in liquid, suction and hot gas lines. The valves are compatible with fluorinated refrigerants, including high-pressure refrigerants such as R410A (EVRH).
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
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A range of robust hermetic reciprocating compressors based on more than 40 years of experience in the field.
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OptymaTM ranges of condensing units match your commercial refrigeration application needs, with their unique versatility and simplicity to install. Multi-refrigerants, using low-GWP and natural refrigerants, highly efficient, they are a perfect fit for small to mid-size cold rooms, display cabinets, milk cooling tanks, fermentation rooms and much more.
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Danfoss’ range of universal MCX programmable controllers offers the functionality and reliability you need to get the best out of your heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) equipment.
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The system manager is the key component of the intelligent Danfoss ADAP-KOOL® refrigeration system for food retail.
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Solenoid valves for A/C and commercial refrigeration for fluorinated refrigerants and CO2 (R744). Solenoid valves and coils are normally supplied separately and then assembled without tools, providing optimum flexibility and product availability.
Documents
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| Article | Food safety Focus on system performance, reliability and connectivity | English | Multiple | 26 Mar, 2025 | 936.9 KB |
Inspiration
Case stories
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With 230 service stations around the country, Maxol Group is the leading family-owned oil company in Ireland. Beginning in 2014, Maxol stations underwent a transformation that placed increased focus on the customer experience, offering high-end snack products and convenience shopping to people on the-go. During this transformation, Maxol wanted to upgrade refrigeration, lighting and HVAC to support store ambience, ensure food safety and save on energy bills.
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By integrated control of refrigeration, HVAC and lighting, leading French retailer saved 46 % on the energy bill during nighttime and weekends, and 20 % during daytime. The integrated control system has now been implemented in more than 700 stores across France.
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To prove the energy saving potential of adaptive technology, Danfoss performed test studies at two leading players in the Ukrainian convenience sector. The tests returned energy savings of up to 34% when replacing conventional control solutions with adaptive technology.
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