The place where I work seems to be a really chilly place.
The store is outlined in frozen bunkers, frozen doors, and coolers.
All of these things let off cold air making the store cold. In the winter it feels like the air conditioning is on but really it is just all of these cold areas making the store cold. We actually do try to run the heat in the winter. Most people would think we were lying if we tried to tell them this though. I notice it myself when I come back from my break. It takes me ten minutes just to warm up and allow my body to adjust to the temperature of the store. When an area is cold, we automatically think that the air conditioning is really rather high. Sometimes you need to stop and ask yourself what is making it really that cold. Is it the air conditioning? Is it something else? In this case it is something else. The store gets very cool in the summer so our bills go down in the summer because we really just need the bunkers, coolers and frozen doors to keep the store cool. It still uses electricity but at least we are not working our HVAC system really hard to pump out cool air. We spend more in the winter trying to warm the store a little. The cold being given off in the store kind of prevents the store from getting warm and runs the system harder. The system works much harder to push warm air into the store.