My random guess: freezer need temperature audits and franchise supermarkets have to prove they're properly managing the food. If the central monitoring service can also alert/dispatch staff within minutes to deal with issues, it becomes a pretty attractive proposition.

Something that might not be obvious, but temporary dips in temperatures also need to be monitored as it's enough to spoil the food. Worse case scenario isn't to have to throw 50~100 kilos of food, it's to have spoiled food still looking fine and consumers ending at the ER, with the whole franchise name on the news.

> My freezer at home

That can't be your frame of reference for a business entity part of a franchise.

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slow_typist 11 hours ago | parent [-]

There are better (and offline) solutions to detect temperature dips in the freezer (e.g. a thermograph, or cheaper, solutions that change color). And as a former trucker delivering frozen and refrigerated goods I can tell you the most dangerous part of the journey to the customer is not in the freezer of the POS. That being said, I admit I don’t know the legal requirements today. But I doubt someone will be sent out at night to salvage a few pounds of frozen spinach.

	▲	makeitdouble 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		On better solutions managed locally, yes of course. Small shop's also deal with the same requirements without keeping their stuff online. > someone will be sent out at night We're talking about France, so that's an even lower chance of happening for a freezer's worth of goods. The two upsides I'd see are the ability to throw away the food next day before opening the shop, and the franchise being able to force that procedure even if the local shop would have chosen otherwise. Local tenant are usually a lot more lenient than their franchise manager (for good reason usually, but there's always that tension)