Our Places, Processes and People
When it comes to our operations, we’re zeroing in on where we have operational control and are constantly refining our strategies to optimize impact and business performance.
Impact Continues with Our Associates and Distribution Centers
When our associates feel safe, our buildings and fleet are efficient, and our culture is inclusive, we become a more resilient business that can lower costs and reinvest operational savings. We invest in initiatives and projects that best serve our associates, customers, and suppliers, and protect consumer confidence.
Our Work in Action
In FY2024, we improved collaboration with internal teams and external partners to reach our collective goals. We enhanced our programming to best serve our associates, took meaningful steps to be an industry leader in food safety, piloted key Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) programs, continued our focus on energy efficiency, and made investments in solar, electrification, and new partnerships to optimize dispatch and routes for our fleet.
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Approaching Safety Collaboratively
The safety of our associates, the product we move, and the people we serve, is of utmost importance. We have taken a leading role in educating regulators on the complexities of food traceability, took our produce quality control mechanisms to the next level, implemented new technologies, and refined our internal processes.
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Operating More Efficiently
We can help protect natural resources, while also reducing costs and reinvesting in projects that support both sustainability and business outcomes. We are proactively prioritizing energy efficiency, investing in renewable energy, optimizing our distribution network, and electrifying our fleet.
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Building an Inclusive, High-Performing Culture
We are focused on providing holistic support for our associates and remain committed to our five pillars of well-being. Through this work, we can continue to build an inclusive, high-performing, and agile culture and regularly check that our programming is having the desired impact. Our pillars of well-being include: Career, Community, Emotional, Financial and Physical.
Our Goals & Fiscal 2024 Highlights
We enhanced our programming to best serve all associates, took meaningful steps to demonstrate industry leadership around food safety, piloted key safety programs, and continued our focus on energy efficiency.
Achieve SQF certification at all applicable distribution centers by the end of FY2025.
Strive for “Green” EcoLab Retail audit rating at all of our retail stores.
Reduce scope 1 and 3 heavy freight well-to-wheel GHG emissions from transportation by 38% per tonne kilometer by the end of FY2030. Reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions from all other emission sources by 50% by the end of FY2030.
associates participated in at least one inclusion and well-being related activity in FY2024
electric and hybrid trailers in our commercial fleet
year-over-year improvement in fuel efficiency
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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