Refurbished petrol station chocolates are melting while the cashier is being blinded

Customer Issue:

1. Low winter sun melting chocolates in the shop wasting stock and the staffs time covering them up
2. Loss of revenue from covered soft items customer can’t see or get to purchase
3. The fridges and freezers are having to work too hard from the extra heat gain from the low sun
4. Cashier being blinded by the low winter sun and is getting uncomfortably hot
5. Too much sunlight is shining on the till screen its making it impossible to read resulting in eye stain and headaches
6. Too much sunlight is stopping in the bar code reader from scanning purchased shop items

Customer Desires:

The Customer, the business owner had his premises remodelled but it wasn’t until the winter when the overhang which protected the windows from the high summer sun offered no protection from the low winter sun that new problems materialised. The staff are dashing about wasting time covering up or moving the chocolates to stop them from melting meaning the customers couldn’t purchase them, the chiller units are working overly hard and is going to but strain on the compressors prematurely wearing them out and costing a lot more to run. The Cashier staff are being blinded and can’t oversee the forecourt to read the car registrations or see to turn on the pumps, they can’t read the till screen and the bar code reader can’t read the bar codes because it’s being over lit…Oh and is there anything you can do about blocking phone signal to get them off their phones? One big must is the shop and all its contents must be clearly visible to entice people in so no dark or reflective films.

CoolGlass Solution:

The heat and the glare issues need to be dealt with separately and very differently.
The glare is dealt with a dark foil roller blind which blocks out + 95% of visible light but you can still see though it so when it needs to lowered the forecourt is still visible. The issue with using a very dark film for this application is at night the cashier will struggle to see out as it is a fixed product, also if the cashier needs to wave to someone bringing something to their attention they can’t be seen behind a dark film but a blind can be lifted as required.
The heat is dealt with one of the lightest at 70% visible light transmission but most powerful window films on the market the Solar Gard LX70 and here fitted to single glazed laminated glass still reduces solar heat gain by approximately 40% and also due to the very high metal content can help with reducing electromagnetic energy i.e. phone signals. The noticeable benefit of this film is that is that isn’t noticeable at all.