Hannaford's brand-new LEED-Platinum facility in Maine, the $1 million saved by Food Lion through a green IT project, Stop & Shop's seafood sourcing policies, or any number of other stories, supermarkets are both a hot topic and a large target when you're looking at the greening of business.

Hannaford's brand-new LEED-Platinum facility in Maine, the $1 million saved by Food Lion through a green IT project, Stop & Shop's seafood sourcing policies, or any number of other stories, supermarkets are both a hot topic and a large target when you're looking at the greening of business.

And at the Food Marketing Institute's Food Industry Sustainability Summit, happening this week in San Francisco, we get a good look at why the grocery industry is in the limelight.

"We need to begin to think of retailers as leaders in sustainability; they help consumers live more sustainable lifestyles and build sustainable consumption into their lives," explained Michele Halsell, the managing director of the University of Arkansas' Applied Sustainability Center. "They are the link between the suppliers and the consumers, [and] taking that approach to your role in the world is the start of an important transformation."

Source: Greenbiz

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