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Cultural Awareness at Wegmans

Challenge

Create engaging opportunities to raise awareness and celebrate the cultural contributions of various heritage groups on society, our communities, and our company.

Actions
  • Created a representative, cross-functional D&I council from every area of the company who meet monthly to share best practices and create new cross-cultural learning
  • Established an annual calendar and tool kit to recognize, learn and celebrate heritage months with our customers and employees
  • Initiated a program of offer employees the option to add pronouns to nametags (and their online internal profile) for respectful communication from coworkers and customers
Outcomes
  • We’ve curated and shared 100+ employee stories that have been shared internally and/or externally\
  • Employee and customer engagement on this content continues to increase
  • Over 2,000 employees have added pronouns to their nametags
Contact

April Purdie
Director, Diversity & Inclusion

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