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Healthier food —

Over the past year, we continue to make significant progress toward our five commitments in this critical area.

  1. Reformulate thousands of everyday packaged food items by the end of 2015.
  2. Save customers money on healthier food.
  3. Launch a simple front-of-package icon backed by strong nutrition criteria.
  4. Open Walmart stores in food deserts by 2016.
  5. Increase charitable support for nutrition programs.
Commitment Progress Update
Improve the nutritional quality of our Great Value™ brand and national food brands. Reduce sodium by 25 percent and added sugars by 10 percent, as well as remove all industrially produced trans fats by the end of 2015 (2008 Baseline). By the end of FY2013, we reduced sodium by 13 percent, and we surpassed our goal for sugar reduction in FY2012. At the end of FY2013, fewer than 7 percent of products in our U.S. stores contained partially hydrogenated oils, a decrease from 9 percent in FY2012.
Save customers at least $1 billion a year on healthier foods, including reduced prices on produce and parity pricing on healthier foods and beverages. In FY2014, we exceeded our annual goal by saving our customers $1.2 billion on fresh fruits and vegetables. Since making this commitment, we have saved our customers $3.5 billion on fresh produce. The price differential between healthier and traditional food and beverage choices has been reduced in the past year from 5.4 percent to 5.1 percent.
Create a front-of-package icon to help consumers easily and quickly identify healthier food options, such as whole grain cereal, whole wheat pasta, lean cuts of meat and low-fat milk.

In 2013, our Great For You™ icon continued to roll out in Walmart U.S. stores and now appears on Great Value™ and Marketside™ foods and beverages.

  • More than 30 percent of Great Value™ and Marketside™ private-brand foods and beverages, including fresh produce, meats, poultry and seafood, now carry the Great For You™ icon.
  • We launched tools to help consumers put Great For You™ into action. These included more than 75 quick, affordable and nutritious recipes, weekly food tips, messages communicated via social media channels and a series of short videos to help plan, shop and prepare healthier meals and snacks at home.
  • The Great For You™ icon has been made available for use to national- brand companies.
Open between 275 and 300 new stores in urban and rural food deserts by 2016. Increase access to fresh and healthier foods for Americans. By the end of FY2014, we opened 224 stores serving food deserts across the country. Of these, 48 were opened in FY2012, 80 in FY2013 and 96 in FY 2014.
Invest in food and nutrition programs to help educate consumers about healthier food choices. Walmart and the Walmart Foundation continue to honor our commitment to increase charitable support for nutrition programming, donating more than $15.4 million in 2013 and more than $41 million since 2011. With a goal of helping Americans learn to choose and use healthier, more nutritious food items, we fund programs that teach cooking and shopping skills, provide nutrition education and increase knowledge of healthy eating.