Carbon accounting for every store.
In retail and hospitality, the footprint runs from refrigeration and electricity to the goods you sell and the deliveries in between. Zoru brings every store, café and kitchen into one data set, priced with UK government (DESNZ) factors, and takes it through review to signed-off reports.
Emissions are Scope 1 and 2, location-based.
Median of 3 ranked sites: 260 kWh per m².
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What makes it hard, and how Zoru helps.
- Challenge
Dozens of stores, one footprint
Every store, café and kitchen has its own bills, and different teams run them.
How Zoru helpsEvery store as a site
Set up each store as a site with its floor area, limit editors to their own stores, and compare Scope 1 and 2 intensity per m² store by store. Intensity and targets
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Refrigerant leaks
Cold rooms, display cases and air conditioning are topped up through the year, and leaks can be a large part of a store's direct emissions.
How Zoru helpsRefrigerant top-ups in Scope 1
Log top-ups from your engineers' service records, or estimate from the units you run. Each gas is converted to tCO₂e (tonnes of CO₂ equivalent) using its global warming potential. How measuring works
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Goods and deliveries
Much of the footprint is Scope 3 (the emissions in your supply chain): what you sell and how it reaches the shop floor.
How Zoru helpsPurchased goods and freight from spend
Upload your purchase ledger. Zoru estimates purchased goods, freight and deliveries from what you spent, and builds a supplier register ranked by your spend. Bringing your data in
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Customers and landlords ask for figures
SECR figures, a Carbon Reduction Plan for a tender or a customer questionnaire, and they need to stand up.
How Zoru helpsReviewed, then reported
Every entry starts as a draft: it counts in your totals, marked not yet reviewed, until someone approves it, and the year can't be closed until every draft is reviewed. One data set produces SECR, ISO 14064-1, GRI and your Carbon Reduction Plan. The reports
What Zoru measures in each store.
Refrigeration
Top-ups to cold rooms, display cases and air conditioning, from service records or an estimate based on the units you run.
Electricity
Priced location- and market-based for each store, including part-green tariffs, with a place to record the certificate evidence.
Heating and kitchens
Mains gas read from your bills, and LPG or heating oil entered in Heating, priced with DESNZ factors.
An action plan for your stores.
Every paid Zoru account includes AI action plans. Each action shows its estimated saving and, where one can be estimated, a cost and payback, from quick wins like LED lighting to refits like doors on chilled cases.
- Quick wins firstThen strategic and long-term actions.
- Cost and paybackShown where one can be estimated.
- OwnersGive each action someone responsible.
- Carried overAn action still in progress continues into next year in one click.
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Every store in one report.
Sign up and start with your energy bills and refrigerant records, or talk to us.