PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 14, 2022
Pulling down shades every night across the walls of produce cases at 184 stores across the Northeast is one strategy designed to move Hannaford toward the company’s newest goal: run its supermarkets on 100 percent renewable electricity by 2024. Other strategies include meat cases that can be closed and motion-sensitive lights in freezer cases. It’s an aggressive timetable, but it’s just one step in an even more ambitious goal in the climate-change-fight for Hannaford’s parent company, Ahold Delhaize. The global retailer is striving to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across its operations by 2040, and its entire supply chain by 2050.