{"id":10913,"date":"2018-08-27T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T14:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10913"},"modified":"2018-08-27T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T14:45:58","slug":"kroger-eliminating-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/kroger-eliminating-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroger Eliminating Plastic Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the change will be gradual. Late last week, the company announced that it would begin phasing out single-use plastic bags as part of its \u201cZero Hunger-Zero Waste\u201d initiative in favor of more sustainable options like paper bags \u2013 and reusable bags available for purchase in store. Its goal is to have phased out single-use plastic in all of its banners by 2025. The company currently distributes 6<em> billion<\/em> of the bags each year.<\/p>\n<p>First up is QFC <strong>(Quality Food Centers)<\/strong>, the Bellevue, WA-based banner, and its 80+ stores.<strong> Kroger <\/strong>stated that QFC\u2019s transition should be completed by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>If bags are your business,<strong> Chain Store Guide<\/strong> can help. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-87-supermarket-grocery-retailers-convenience-store-leads.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supermarket, Grocery and Convenience Store Chains Database <\/a>contains information for 240+ <strong>Kroger personnel,<\/strong> including more than 50 individuals within its purchasing, supply chain and buying departments. All in, the database offers our clients access to more than 24,000 personnel across 2,700+ companies within the supermarket and C-store industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the change will be gradual. Late last week, the company announced that it would begin phasing out single-use plastic bags as part of its \u201cZero Hunger-Zero Waste\u201d initiative in favor of more sustainable options like paper bags \u2013 and reusable bags available for purchase in store. Its goal is to have phased out single-use&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/kroger-eliminating-plastic-bags\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kroger Eliminating Plastic Bags<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-10913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grocery-convenience","tag-csg-exclusive","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}