Safeway Is First US Grocer to Join The Sustainability Consortium
Safeway Inc. is now the first U.S.-based retail grocery chain and manufacturer of private label merchandise to join The Sustainability Consortium, an independent organization of diverse global participants that work collaboratively to build a scientific foundation that drives innovation aimed at improving consumer product sustainability.
Specifically, Safeway is drawn to the Consortium’s product life cycle assessment (LCA) mission. The company wants to aggregate data from throughout its supply chain –from primary sectors such as agriculture, dairy, packaging and fishery through industrial food processing to retail delivery –and then use this data to create a corporate-wide supply chain policy that encourages sustainable purchasing and manufacturing practices for the organization’s direct and indirect buying. (more…)
