Sustainability in Retail Chat: w/ Triple Pundit, Retail TouchPoints & RILA’s Adam Siegel
RILA released their first Retail Sustainability Report today. To further discuss retail sustainability successes, challenges, and visions for the future, @RILAtweets hosted a tweet chat #RILAchat with Triple Pundit’s Nick Aster, Retail TouchPoints’ Debbie Hauss, & RILA’s Adam Siegel.
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ShareWelcome to the RILA 2012 Retail Sustainability Report
This website showcases the successes, challenges, and a vision for the future of the retail industry’s sustainability efforts. The websit… -
[HOST] (Q1): Now that you’ve had a chance to evaluate 2011 (hopefully!), what was your biggest sustainability success last year?
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Share“A1a First, while many U.S. retailers are investing in sustainability efforts we still lag behind Europe and other countries #RILAchat
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Share“For the Retail Sustainability Initiative (RSI), it was to learn about the vast activities going on within the industry #rilachat
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Share“A1b Walmart has a Packaging Scorecard that rates the sustainability index for every product from every supplier #RILAchat
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Share“Is Walmart’s packaging scorecard available for other retailers? #RILAchat
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Share“Good question re availability of Walmart scorecard @SustainGal. Will investigate. #RILAchat
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Share“@SustainGal you can see more about Walmart’s Packaging Scorecard here: walmartstores.com/pressroo… #rilachat
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Share“A1c Kohl’s invested in green power and JCPenney is hosting solar power systems. #RILAchat
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Share“A1d Whole Foods won a sustainability design award in 2010 and LUSH sells products with no packaging #RILAchat
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Share“A1E Stop & Shop has fuel cell that is generating most of the store’s electricity #RILAchat
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Share“A1f Greening Retail provides a best-practice database greeningretail.ca/best/ #RILAchat
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Share“#RILAchat A1 – Lots of different stories, but general rise in awareness/acceptance of sustainability as good biz is most exciting
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[HOST] (Q2): What key sustainability trends do you see happening in 2012 & beyond?
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Share“A2) We see retailers working across sectors to achieve sustainability goals. That will be an increasingly prevalent trend #RILAchat
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Share“A2a Of the 14 categories from Greening Retail, key areas will be: energy conservation, green energy, supply chain, transportation #RILAchat
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Share“A2b Others could include green products, staff training and incentives, customer education and marketing #RILAchat
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Share“#RILAchat A2 – Hard to list! Sharing economy, green energy, rise in gas prices, demand for walkability, local economies (especially food)
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Share“A2 – We’ve noticed many of our retail customers increasingly expanding their focus on EH&S regulatory compliance #RILAchat
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Share“We haven’t found solar to have an ROI for small box retailers. Have any small boxes had success with solar in terms of ROI? #RILAchat
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Share“@sustaingal yes, while there are not many retailers who have sust integrated into exec’s KPIs, it is becoming more common #rilachat
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Share“@RILAtweets A trend gaining momentum is plastic bag regulations which is challenging for a large retailer to address #RILAchat
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Share“#RILAchat A2 Trend for 2012: customers will demand transparency, means increased genuine stakeholder engagement, not lip service
