The idea being it reduces the number of staff needed to run the store because now we can restock shelves uninterrupted.
Of course, that’s not what’s happening. Instead of being asked where our canned mushrooms are, we’re now being asked where aisle 31 is, and we’re having to take extra time to find out what their actual question is.
Because there are only 14 aisles in the store.
Oh, and I actually like being asked where stuff is, because it breaks up the monotony of bringing out rollcomp, rotating, stocking, facing up, putting back rollcomp, repeat until lunch.
…and a kitchen oven is larger still giving even more flexibility.
Or maybe the reason people find air fryers so useful is because they are small, fast and energy efficient.
I can only speak for the products we sell and precisely zero of them are energy efficient in any meaningful way.
An air frier is energy efficient in the sense that it makes a pizza in 7m total, no preheat, while the oven needs to preheat for 5 mins and then 12 mins of cooking. Size matters a lot in terms of efficiency. Being bigger is not always a plus.