Commitments and progress
| Title | Description | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Healthier baskets for our customers | We will make the most popular items in our customers' baskets healthier, focusing on products that contribute the most saturated fat, salt or sugar to the UK diet, to deliver a real impact on the nation's health | Ongoing – we continue to make the most popular items in our customers' baskets healthier |
| Title | Description | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Being best for British | We will source great-tasting British products when in season, wherever these meet our customers' expectations for quality and authenticity | Achieved and Ongoing – we remain committed to supporting UK farmers and continue to source British products, both when in season and in certain categories all year round |
| Being number one supermarket for animal welfare | We will offer the widest range of higher welfare products of any UK retailer | Achieved – we both offer the widest range of Freedom Food higher welfare products and sell more than any other UK retailer |
| Sourcing responsibly and ethically | We will be the largest UK retailer of Fairtrade products (by sales value) | Achieved – we are the world's largest retailer of Fairtrade by value |
| Title | Description | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Reducing energy | We will reduce our CO2 emissions per m2 by 25% by 2012, against a 2005/06 baseline | Ongoing – our commitment on refrigeration, Eco-stores and reset programme are helping us to progress towards this target |
| Reducing packaging | We will reduce our own brand packaging weight, relative to sales, by 33% by 2015 against a 2009 baseline | Ongoing – making progress both incrementally through packaging redesign and through packaging innovation like milk bags |
| Reducing food waste | We will have all supermarkets and depots connected to a zero food waste to landfill programme by the end of 2009 | Achieved and ongoing – we now have all of our supermarkets and depots connected to a zero food waste to landfill programme. In 2010/11, we will further embed this into the business by connecting our convenience stores to the programme and provide additional colleague training on zero waste |
| Reducing waste | We will have all supermarkets and depots connected to a zero waste to landfill programme for operational waste by the end of 2010 | Ongoing – making progress by using our back-hauling process more efficiently and ISO14001 at depots. By the end of 2010, all supermarkets, convenience stores and depots will be connected to our zero waste to landfill programme |
| Title | Description | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Generating a positive economic impact on communities | We will provide 6,500 new Sainsbury's jobs in 2009/10 through our planned opening of 28 supermarkets and 55 new convenience stores | Achieved – over 6,500 new jobs were created by opening 38 new supermarkets and 51 new convenience stores |
| We will provide 6,500 new jobs in 2010/11 through our planned opening of 17 supermarkets and over 75 new convenience stores | New commitment | |
| Supporting local communities | We will launch our Local Charity of the Year scheme, linking every store, Sainsbury's depot and our support centres to a local charity partner each year | Achieved – we have supported over 750 local charities through the scheme this year |
| We will support community based fundraising and colleague volunteering, encouraging our customers and colleagues to make a positive difference in the local community | New commitment | |
| We will offer local groups and charities space in our stores to support community activities and events, helping bring the community together | New commitment |
| Title | Description | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Supporting the development of our colleagues | We will provide over 10,000 colleagues with job opportunities, skills and qualifications through our 'You Can' programme by 2010 | Achieved and Ongoing – We have exceeded our commitment to provide 10,000 colleagues with job opportunities, skills and qualifications through our ‘You Can’ programme by 2010. We remain committed to ‘You Can’ and will continue to support opening Sainsbury's up to a wide range of new recruits and to help our colleagues develop new skills through our ‘You Can’ programme |
| We will improve our leadership capability by investing in a development programme that will touch every manager across the business by the end of the 2010/11 financial year | New commitment |
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