Chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg say fridge temperatures rose overnight, similar to hack of French stores
Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have said the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers in dozens of stores rose overnight, prompting fears of a cyber-attack similar to one that caused millions of euros of food losses in France.
Sweden’s Coop chain told the daily Aftonbladet on Monday that six of its stores had been affected, while ICA said it was “aware that a limited number of stores were affected by an incident overnight which impacted their refrigeration and freezer systems”.
Refrigerators are not hard to diagnose or repair. The only reason to have them hooked to the Internet is to try and get out of paying someone to work on them. In that case I say; Good. Stop trying to take people out of the equation because stupid shit like this happens.
I didn’t say it was a good reason.
But would a worker spending time travelling to a customer site to do something they could have done from their desk be a good and rewarding job for them anyway?
They don’t have a maintenance guy that works in store? Seems like a poor business plan.
For sure, but find any grocery store with a refrigeration engineer based in store in your town/city. Managers see it as cheaper and good enough to outsource.