Toronto, July 10, 2008 – Customers will notice
a small change in their shopping experience at participating
A&P, Dominion, Ultra Food & Drug, the Barn, Loeb and Food
Basics stores this summer. For the second year in a row, the
company is dimming store lights by up to 50 per cent in an effort
to reduce power consumption and relieve pressure on Ontario’s power
grid.
“We are committed to minimizing our impact on the environment
through many initiatives including dimming our store lights,” said
Vince Bertrand, Vice-President, conventional operations, A&P
Canada. “By dimming the lights in our stores across Ontario this
summer we are helping improve Ontario’s air quality.”
Last summer, A&P Canada was recognized by Toronto Hydro for
dimming the lights in the Summer Challenge for Business. This
year’s decision to reduce the lighting is one of many environmental
initiatives under Leave it Greener, the company’s
environmental platform.
Here is what A&P Canada is already doing to protect the
environment:
• Since the launch of the program in June 2006, more than two
million reusable bags have been sold to date
• All flyers from A&P Canada are now printed on 100 per cent
recycled paper
• More than 25,000 metric tons of cardboard are diverted from
landfills every year
• Since 1996, A&P, Dominion, Ultra Food & Drug and the Barn
customers have been able to bring back their plastics bags and
deposit them into recycling bins at store locations across Ontario.
In fall 2007 Food Basics began the program
• Since 2003, A&P Canada has diverted more than 4.4 million
pounds of plastic film from landfills, the equivalent of
approximately 316 million plastics bags
A&P Canada Inc.
Serving Canadians since 1927, A&P Canada Inc. is a wholly owned
subsidiary of METRO INC. and operates more than 280 grocery stores
under the A&P, Dominion, Ultra Food & Drug, The Barn, Loeb
and Food Basics banners throughout Ontario. For more information
and for store locations, visit www.freshobsessed.com.
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Selena Fiacco
Director, Communications
A&P Canada
416.234.6081 selena.fiacco@metro.ca
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