Hannaford Puts the Environment and Community First

I started working at Hannaford's in North Brookfield about 3 months ago and I couldn't be happier with the place that I work at. Hannaford's is very environmentally conscious and helps the local community massively. When I finally started working at Hannaford's is when I learned about all of the environmental and social benefits that they have. Hannaford uses only eco-friendly lights and doesn't turn all of them on until an hour after they open, they also turn a majority of the lights off an hour earlier than they close the store; they do all of this to save energy. Hannaford also saves and sells their broken or unused plastics to a plastic recycling company. Another way of saving plastic is the reusable bags; although a blog a whole blog post in itself, I will say that these reusable bags are saving vast amounts of wasted plastics and a dollar from every bag you buy is going to a local organization; for example the N.B youth center or the Second Chance Animal Shelter. Hannaford also assists local food shelters as well; when meat is about to go bad they freeze it and send it to these shelters. Along with giving away the meat Hannaford also gives the "damaged products" to food pantries, now I know what you're thinking about the damaged products, but these "damaged products" are mostly just slightly opened bags, dented cans and partially squished bread; so basically the products that the average consumer eye would not purchase but are still sustainable. Hannaford also supports local businesses. They created the "close to home" program to help support locally grown products. All of the Hannaford stores supports different local farms depending on their location; North Brookfield supports the Howe's Farm and Garden of Braintree. Hannaford also supports fighting hunger locally. By doing so they have the Hannaford Helps Fight Hunger Boxes that people can purchase in the store. These boxes contains various food items that are sent to local food pantries to be given to families in need. Hannaford's puts the community before itself and I am a very proud associate.