Bid on Bottles That Benefit
The fourth annual Ultimate Bourbon Auction to End Hunger, hosted by Kroger, was created to support Kroger's Zero Hunger, Zero Waste plan to end hunger in the communities where we operate. This is the ultimate bourbon auction of the year!
With bottles of bourbon so rare, it's impossible to get your hands on them. These truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to own your own exclusive Van Winkle Collection, Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, and much more are truly the ultimate bourbon collector's dream.
Auction ends Sunday, November 24, 2023 at 9:00 PM EST.
**You must be 21 years of age to bid on auction items**
**Please note auction winners must pick up your winning auction item at: Kroger Company 1600 Ormsby Station Court, Louisville KY 40223**
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Kroger's Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Initiative
Commitment: End Hunger in Our Communities by 2025
To help improve food security in our communities, we are focused on:
- Accelerating donations: We are reviewing opportunities to increase donations through our Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Food Rescue program. This includes improved store execution of our current program, and working with our partners at Feeding America, WWF and others to include more items.
- Applying analytics and insights: We are connecting insights from 84.51°—Kroger's customer insights and analytics team—with Feeding America's latest Map the Meal Gap data and other important inputs to identify areas where Kroger can uniquely contribute to ending hunger in our communities. This includes work with Feeding America's Center for Applied Research in Action (CARA).
- Focusing on geographic hotspots: Leveraging these insights, we will focus on key areas of need in our communities around the country to test scalable solutions for improving food security for families.
- Leveraging technology: We will evaluate and test innovative ideas and technology solutions that show promise in ending hunger and eliminating waste.
- Raising awareness: Kroger helps promote the value of food, showing how to stretch the shelf life of food and waste less. We offer a monthly "Wilted to Wonderful" blog series on KrogerStories.com, featuring tips from our own Kroger Chef Brandon Fortener.
Commitment: Eliminate Waste Across Our Company by 2025
The Kroger family of companies is focused on preventing and reducing operational waste and food waste. We committed to achieve zero waste in our operations as part of our 2020 Sustainability Goals. As part of Kroger's Zero Hunger | Zero Waste plan, we also committed to eliminate food waste by 2025.
Eliminating food waste starts with understanding our current food waste footprint. After introducing Zero Hunger | Zero Waste, we began an engagement with World Wildlife Fund to study our retail supermarket food loss and waste. Our Sustainability and Retail Operations teams worked with World Wildlife Fund's Food Waste Program leaders and analysts to:
- Finalize the current state of food waste in our retail stores with year-end 2017 food loss and waste data;
- Set a baseline for achieving zero food waste by 2025;
- Establish a framework for transparency in food waste reporting;
- Create internal dashboards to report progress and celebrate achievements; and
- Identify priorities for deep-dive work and pilot projects to reduce food waste.
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