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Keith Milligan, JTM Corp.
US RETAILER PIGGLY WIGGLY’S AMMONIA/CO2 EXPERIMENT US retailer Piggly Wiggly has recorded energy savings averaging 28.5% over a seven-month period in a Georgia store, thanks mainly to its NH3/CO2 refrigeration system. – By Michael Garry
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Accelerate Europe September 2016
iggly Wiggly operates over 750 self-service grocery stores in 18 states across the Midwestern and Southern regions of the United States.
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When Keith Milligan received the first utility bill for his new 36,000-square-foot Piggly Wiggly store in Columbus, Georgia last year, he was flabbergasted at how low it was. “I called the lady at the power company [Georgia Power] and said, ‘I just want to make sure you got this right,’” said Milligan, owner of JTM Corp., Phoenix City, Alabama, a US family-owned retailer that operates 19 Piggly Wiggly stores along the border separating central Alabama and Georgia. He chuckled at the memory. “I didn’t want her to come back in two years and say, ‘I billed you wrong and you owe us $200,000.’ But she checked it, and it was correct.”
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