Fact of the matter is, the supermarket is not meant for customers. It is for engineers to develop advanced controls and components, the most successful of which will find their ways into the customer-friendly supermarkets in the outside world.
The store is at the headquarters of Computer Process Controls and Emerson Retail Services, both of which are part of Emerson Climate Technologies. “The idea here is to test new algorithms, new devices, to look for new technologies,” said Russ Brandt, manager of Emerson’s Integration Center.