Is there a reason why shops are turning their air con temperature up to full?

Biggest lickspittle on boardz

Has anyone else noticed this trend in shops? TK Maxx are by far the worst offenders, the have the thermostat at a really high temperature that makes it really uncomfortable to be in the store. I've had to leave a few times as it starts to get irritating, and the last thing I want to do it shop.

I noticed it again today in a Meteor store, there was a blast of hot air that really annoyed me. It surprised me how quickly I became grumpy in an uncomfortably hot environment. All I could think of was Michael Douglas in the movie Falling Down. (Thankfully, I resisted the temptation to engage in a psychotic killing spree, although I did tut quite loudly at one point when an old woman was taking too long in the queue.)

Is this some sort of new marketing trick to irritate shoppers so that their logical thought process (the enemy of impulsive buying) is disrupted?


Or am I just a cranky old fart now?

L1011

Because its wet today and they're scared of anyone slipping and suing them. Even though cold aircon dries too, most people don't seem to realise that.

Slydice

Yeah, it's cos it was scorchio last week and it's (relatively) bleedin freezin this week so I'd say it's the quick-don't-think-about-it reaction to the change

Ubbquittious

The aircon machines are all hooked into some cloud service run by a bunch of yanks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Tampa or San Somethingorother in California and the guy running it can't possibly imagine it being cold here so he has forced them all to switch on