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> What is the store to do, employ full-time knob-turners?

How often do you think the knobs would need to be turned? You think someone or something is constantly fiddling with the temperature knobs of each individual freezer?

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It is done automatically and continuously by the on-prem facilities management system, and monitored and adjusted remotely. If you disconnect the freezer from the control systems you need a meatbot to do the same work. Simplifying the problem to 'my kitchen freezer never needs to be adjusted, so the supermarket freezer can be disconnected' doesn't address the need.

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