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Sustainability
Our strategy aligns with our purpose and our values, business objectives and drivers. We make sure to leverage our IT capacity, embed sustainability measuring and monitoring into our business operations and decision-making, and focus on building meaningful partnerships that will help scale the impact of our sustainability projects.
Our People
We invest in our people to enable them to reach their highest potential.
We provide accessible, affordable and safe products to our customers.
Our Communities
We #ActForChange in our communities.
Together we grow local economies and create jobs.
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We promote sustainable consumption and production patterns for our planet.
Trained 141 452 people
Invested R491 miilion and 3.5 million training hours
Saved 34.2 million kWh through use of energy- efficient lighting, equaling 35 430 tCO2e
Grew the number of food gardens supported to 119 and trained 571 community members
Served more than 34 million meals to communities in need
* For the year ended 28 June 2020
The Shoprite Group now generates enough electricity to power over 1 100 households - 12 300 MWh of electricity - a year from solar energy, following the installation of rooftop PV (photovoltaic) panels at 19 sites in South Africa and Namibia.
Since the start of the national lockdown, the Shoprite Group has donated more than R53 million in surplus food - over R300 000 per day for the past 185 days - to various organisations tasked with feeding the hungry.
Lydia Hlophe's, founder of the Yenzanathi Community Development Project in Kwanyuswa in KwaZulu-Natal, partnership with the Group started in 2016 with an 18-month investment in the food garden that continues to supply fresh vegetables to the soup kitchen run by Hlophe.
We’re hard at work to ensure that 100% of our plastic packaging is reusable and/or recyclable by 2025. We are already using 4 000 tons of plastic returned annually to our distribution centres to produce our 100% recycled and recyclable plastic shopping bags.
When Susan Davies retired 16 years ago she wanted to help disadvantaged people in the area, so she established the Catch Community Centre in Gonubie, Eastern Cape. With Checkers’ help, she is reinvigorating the food garden that provides fresh vegetables for 120 families.
We take hands with various community partners in long-term projects to #ActForChange in our communities.
Support for preschools includes education and governance training, meals for the children and critical structural upgrades. Recently 15 preschools in and around Kathu in the Northern Cape benefited from an extensive teacher training programme.
From baking a few cakes and employing just over five people, Shanaaz Essa’s business Exquisite Cakes started supplying Shoprite and can now employ over 30 people.
The Gordon's Bay Mall is the seventh solar PV plant installed by the Shoprite Group. Together these plants already reduced the Group’s carbon emissions by 7350 tCO2e.
We align ourselves on the issues relevant to our business and identify where we can most significantly contribute to the United Nations Sustainability Goals (SDG).
We cannot #ActForChange on our own, which is why we ground our social investment in local community partnerships.