To Store Shelves and Hungry Households
Creating a better future for our communities requires intentional, collaborative action to improve access to quality food, empower associates to give back, and protect the planet we share.
A Better Future for Our Communities Requires Intentional, Collaborative Action
Creating a better future for our communities requires intentional and consistent collaboration both across our business and with key partners. We work with suppliers, customers, and community organizations to reduce food waste, advance volunteerism, and give back to our communities. We also look internally – ensuring the accessibility of our owned brands and leveraging the UNFI Foundation to provide financial support to impactful nonprofit organizations.
Our Work in Action
In FY2024, we enhanced our systems to minimize food loss, collaborated with our partners for effective food recovery, supported our communities through skills-based volunteerism, made our first impact investment through the UNFI Foundation, and more.
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Reducing Waste is a Win-Win
Waste reduction is a clear example of how our impact and business strategies work in tandem to achieve our goals. Our efforts to keep waste out of landfills also help us continuously drive operational excellence and reduce shrink, getting products to retail consumers safely and efficiently, and reducing waste disposal costs.
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Working Towards More Accessible Food Systems
We take a tailored approach to make sure that each of our owned brands serves a specific need as a part of a portfolio of differentiated products across value tiers for our customers. We are also taking various steps to promote SNAP access, enabling low-income families throughout the United States to feed their families.
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The UNFI Foundation: Amplifying Key Drivers of Impact
The UNFI Foundation empowers changemakers to create a more sustainable and equitable food system. The Foundation’s priority areas are closely aligned with UNFI’s overall impact goals, including an explicit effort to amplify our climate-smart agriculture efforts.
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Our Goals & Fiscal 2024 Highlights
Achieve zero waste to landfills from distribution centers by 2030.
Reduce food waste from our distribution centers by 50% by the end of FY2025.
Donate 250 million pounds of food by 2030.
Log 200,000 associate volunteer hours by 2030.
of food waste was diverted from landfill in FY2024
pounds of food donated in FY2024
of UNFI-owned brand SKUs are certified as USDA Organic
granted to nonprofits by the UNFI Foundation
Read More About Our Impact
Our stakeholder-focused sustainability strategy has long been a part of UNFI's success, unlocking efficiencies through collaboration across the business, and is key to our company purpose: Better Food. Better Future. We remain focused on providing more people, customers, and communities with Better Food. At the same time, UNFI has evolved into a company that delivers so much more than Better Food. We also strive to create a Better Future for associates, customers, suppliers, communities, and shareholders.
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