Sustainable Grocery Cleaning Starts with the System—Not the Supply Closet

Grocery store managers are caught between two realities. On one side, their stores must be spotlessly clean and sanitary. Anything less will damage customer trust and affect sales.

But managers also care about sustainability. In practice that means trying to save energy, cutting down on extra packaging, and employing better sourcing options. Yet inefficient cleaning practices could be driving water waste, unnecessary chemical use, and plenty of operational inefficiency.

Just switching to “green” cleaning chemicals doesn’t solve this issue. But moving to a sustainable grocery cleaning system ticks all the boxes. These tools save effort, energy, and water while removing dirt and impurities from every part of the store.

Mops and Buckets: Inefficient and Unsustainable

Legacy cleaning tools like mops, rags, and buckets are unsustainable. These old-fashioned methods require a lot of water and even more elbow grease. And unless you have an expensive metering system, they also encourage chemical overuse. All of this stands in opposition to your green cleaning goals.

Moving to green cleaning chemicals may make you feel better but will not solve the problem. Your staff will still be using too much water while spending too much time with a process that cannot remove dirt and germs. Even more troubling, using mops and rags, even with green chemicals, opens your environment up to cross contamination risks. After all, do you know where that mop has been? Or the last time it was washed?

Find Sustainability with System-Based Cleaning

The good news is grocery managers can meet both sustainability goals and cleaning demands by choosing advanced systems from Kaivac. These tools work faster, save on cleaning chemicals, and use less water than legacy methods while fully removing dirt, germs, and pathogens.

Take the AutoVac Stretch™ for example. This advanced cleaning tool removes 60x more soils than mops. It also conserves water use by 75% and chemical use by 66% or more. The AutoVac Stretch saves on labor costs too, as workers can clean up to 25,000 square feet without having to stop and refill.

The same is true for other Kaivac machines. In fact, there’s a Kaivac system for every part of the grocery store. Each machine is designed for different areas, but all have the same sustainably benefits, labor saving features, and extreme cleaning power. Added bonus: the tools deliver the same consistent results no matter who is using them.

The result is clean, dry, and safe grocery floors, restrooms, and refrigerated cases (learn more about our refrigerated case cleaning tool here). Your employees will appreciate how easy these machines are to use and how fast they work. You will appreciate the fast return on investment thanks to labor, water, and chemical savings.

To make real progress on sustainability, grocery managers need to think beyond green cleaning products. Click here to learn more about smarter cleaning systems built for today’s challenges.