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Our Sustainability Mission

Whether it is helping our customers make healthier choices or working to make the way we do business more sustainable, we see this effort as part of Hy-Vee's overall mission of making people's lives easier, healthier, and happier. 

Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Corporate Social Responsibility

At Hy-Vee, we do more than just sell groceries. Our mission is to make lives easier, healthier and happier – and we extend that mission well beyond our store aisles.

As one of America’s most trusted brands, we are committed to caring for the environment and giving back to our people and communities. That’s why we’re taking proactive measures to make the world a better place to live for all.

Our company's purpose is centered around four key initiatives: fighting hunger, offering employment and educational opportunities, caring for the environment and building stronger communities. Learn how we are helping in our 2023 Corporate Social Responsibility Report.

Store construction

Store Construction and Design

While environmentally friendly store construction and design isn’t new to Hy-Vee, we are always striving to be better environmental partners. Through efficiency measures like solar panels and daytime lighting controls, plus the addition of more electrical vehicle charging stations at all our grocery stores fueling stations, we are working to reduce our footprint.

Product Sourcing

Products, Product Sourcing, and Packaging

We’re committed to doing our part to reduce the number of single-use plastics in our stores. We’ve replaced our to-go containers with recyclable containers and we continue to search for sustainable packaging that works for our customers and the environment.

Waste Reduction and Recycling

Waste Reduction and Recycling

Food waste and plastics are a big issue for grocery retailers across the country. We know that reducing waste and recycling are crucial to our sustainability efforts. Our retail stores are diverting 15 to 20 million pounds of food waste annually and our distribution centers are TRUE Zero Waste certified.

Energy Conservation

Energy and Resource Conservation

We conserve energy and resources in a number of ways. Through LED lighting upgrades, store designs that harness natural light and use automated lighting controls, state of the art refrigeration systems, and enterprise energy management, we're minimizing our energy consumption.

Responsible Choice Seafood

Responsible Choice Seafood

Hy-Vee’s commitment to protect ocean resources is an integral part of our sustainability mission to do business in a manner that promotes the well-being of our customers, employees, communities, and the global environment.

Hy-Vee became the first Midwest retailer to source 100% of our fresh and frozen seafood from environmentally responsible sources in 2017. Responsible Choice seafood comes from sources, whether farmed or fished, that can maintain or increase production in the long term without jeopardizing the affected ecosystems.

Things you can do

Things You Can Do

Hy-Vee is also working to make it easier for customers to join in our eco-friendly efforts. Examples of things you can do include:

  • Go Green with a Reusable Bag
  • Purchase Green Products
  • Recycle Plastic Bags at Hy-Vee
  • Build with Bags
  • Electric Vehicle Charging

Grimes Hy-Vee

Grimes Store

Our new Grimes store was built with sustainability in mind. We’ve gone above and beyond building codes to improve insulation, glazing and roofing, all of which will help reduce energy consumption. The Grimes location will also harness the power of the sun through solar panels on the Fast & Fresh. The main store features skylights that allow natural light to illuminate the aisles and daylight sensing dimmers to reduce energy consumption from our LED light fixtures. The Grimes store will also have several electric vehicle charging stations.