Kroger Company is still particular about how we serve customers and community, how we innovate and who we hire, we meet our customers' changing needs by making our products accessible to all. Our current practices are rooted in Kroger's early efforts to serve customers through food freshness, low prices and innovation-fundamentals that remain at the heart of our Kroger mission today. The goal of our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy is to achieve lasting positive impacts through a shared value framework. It benefits people and our planet and creates more resilient systems for our future. The vision for this initiative is: We imagine a world where everyone is Thriving Together.