Executive Editor While some retailers have challenges enforcing mask mandates, some consumers, like this shopper at a Publix store in Florida, have embraced with enthusiasm PPE such as face shields.
If 2020 was the year of masking and sanitation, then 2021 is promising to be the year of double-masking and double-sanitation.
Despite large-scale optimism that the availability of vaccines will end or at least greatly curtail the pandemic, many retailers and suppliers say that the need for personal protective equipment (PPE) and sanitation protocols hasn’t diminished, and is, in fact, more critical now than in 2020.
“With the newly discovered ‘variant’ strains of COVID-19, as well as the expanding ‘COVID-19 fatigue,’ it is more important than ever to continually reinforce the policies and procedures that have been established for operating under COVID-19 protocols,” asserts Michael Stigers, CEO of Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Cub Foods. “All of the le
Substantial ESG gains made in 2020 set the bar for greater commitment going forward
Providence, R.I.-based United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) on Monday released its 2020 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report showcasing the wholesaler giant’s commitments to building a brighter future, transforming today’s foodscape by delivering greater freedom of food choice and by taking innovative action on global social and environmental issues.
In its report, which can be read at BetterForAll.UNFI.com, UNFI highlights the substantial progress made in 2020, including the creation of a CEO-led executive steering committee and completion of a full materiality assessment, and also outlines its strategic and data-driven 2030 goals that the company says will accelerate positive and critical change over the next decade.