Just ask any of the staff at your local Warehouse. After all, it’s been seven years since we decided we needed to make a change. And the first thing we changed was our thinking. We hired people who have spent a lot of time pondering the future. People who share our commitment to responsible retailing, promoting our ethical sourcing programme, monitoring our carbon footprint, increasing recycling and all the while keeping our promise to our customers – making the desirable affordable.

We broadened our focus on care for New Zealand’s communities and environments to a point where most areas of our social and environmental impacts have been addressed by an initiative of some kind. Initiatives that have recently received worldwide recognition at the Barcelona World Retail Awards.

We won’t stop there though. Each and every day we’re constantly striving to find new ways to reduce our footprint and protect the planet. We’ve received a lot of recognition for our work in responsible retailing and it’s all thanks to the systems we’ve put in place over the last seven years. And because it’s vitally important, we will continue to grow our team of like-minded thinkers, stretching across the globe. All working towards the same goal – a sustainable future for New Zealand and the world.

We’re not there yet, but we’ve made a start and with your help we’ll get there sooner rather than later. Then hopefully, going green won’t be old news, it will be the way of the future.