Food Lion, LLC:

Step 1 - Make Commitment

Partner Profile

Food Lion, one of the largest supermarket chains in the United States, has more than 1,220 stores in 11 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states. More than 400 Food Lion stores have achieved the ENERGY STAR label designation and the chain has a portfolio-wide energy performance rating above 75. Food Lion became a partner in the US Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR® program in 1998, and has received ENERGY STAR partner awards in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Retail Partner Since 1998

Awards & Recognition

  • Excellence in Energy Management 2002
  • Leadership in Energy Management 2003
  • Sustained Excellence 2008,2007,2006,2005,2004

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Food Lion, LLC

Contact Information:
 Food Lion, LLC
2110 Executive Drive
Salisbury, NC 28145
704-633-8250

In Practice

1: Make Commitment

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Steadfast energy efficiency commitment grows profits

Any organization working to increase its energy efficiency levels year after year knows that the ability to cut consumption becomes increasingly more difficult as the low-hanging projects are picked off. Yet despite this increasingly difficult assignment, Food Lion continues to push its energy efficiency efforts and, as a result, has been able to reduce energy consumption by as much as 10 percent each year - year after year.

Energy efficiency is a key focus for Food Lion's upper management. Between 2000 and 2005, Food Lion quadrupled its Energy Department staff to 14 individuals. Most significantly, Food Lion in 2004 added an EPA coordinator, who provides energy analysis and ensures that Food Lion monitors its direct and indirect environmental impacts. Food Lion's upper management encourages the energy team to pursue such projects as load control, peak-shaving generators and innovative procurement strategies.

Food Lion's aggressive efforts to reduce energy consumption have saved nearly $104.8 million in actual dollars. Food Lion estimates that the company's 2005 energy budget would have been nearly $46 million higher without the energy efficiency initiatives adopted in the previous four years. Between 2000 and 2005, Food Lion successfully decreased its kBTU/square foot by more than 25 percent.

1.1: Appoint an Energy Director


1.2: Establish an Energy Team

FOOD LION: Unified approach to decision making

 

Energy costs are a grocer's second-largest expense and can easily consume as much as 10 percent of each store's costs. Controlling and reducing energy costs is critical as Food Lion works to keep customer prices low. Because of its commitment to energy efficiency and keeping prices low for customers, Food Lion nearly 10 years ago created an energy team to address energy management issues.

 

In 2003, Food Lion reorganized several departments to create a unified department that reported to a single manager. In particular, Food Lion merged the energy management and maintenance departments under a common strategic sourcing manager of energy and maintenance. By bringing energy management decisions under one manager, Food Lion was able to save energy and money.  In one year, integrated decision making helped reduce maintenance and energy expenses by several million dollars.

1.3: Institute an Energy Policy

Mission

Food Lion has a reputation for providing convenient grocery store locations with products at extra low prices. As part of our commitment to excellence, Food Lion will identify and implement improved financial and operational efficiencies in how we purchase and consume energy, striving to become a world-class leader in energy management within the supermarket industry.

Commitment to Energy Management
Energy Management will plan an increasingly important role in achieving our strategic objectives. Specifically, Food Lion's Energy Management Strategy is to:

  • Support the organization's strategic plan to sharpen our pricing and promotion position, improve convenience of the shopping experience, enhance our fresh product perception, and achieve executional excellence.
  • Support our commitment to our employees, the environment and the community in which we conduct business by improving the environment through active efforts to reduce energy consumption and pollution.
  • Become one of the most efficient grocery stores in the world on a Btu per square foot basis.

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