2023 Natural Grocers Environmental, Social, and Governance Report

SASB Index SASB Item SASB Item

Metric Metric

Natural Grocers Response Natural Grocers Response

UOM

Code

Fleet Fuel Management

Fleet fuel consumed, percentage renewable Gigajoules (GJ), Percentage (%)

FB-FR-110a.1

Primarily third party deliveries. Natural Grocers trucking fleet (3 vehicles) serves partial deliveries to 36 stores. NG fleet 1,620 GJ, 0% renewable energy.

Air Emissions from Refrigeration Air Emissions from Refrigeration Air Emissions from Refrigeration

Gross global Scope 1 emissions from refrigerants Percentage of refrigerants consumed with zero ozone-depleting potential

Metric tons CO2-e FB-FR-110b.1 We endeavor to disclose this information in the future.

Percentage (%) by weight

FB-FR-110b.2 We endeavor to disclose this information in the future. FB-FR-110b.3 We endeavor to disclose this information in the future. FB-FR-130a.1 (1)We endeavor to disclose this information in the future. (2) 100% (3) 0% FB-FR-150a.1 We endeavor to disclose this information in the future. We do not offer self service bulk bins, deli counter, meat counter, seafood counter, or salad bar to

Average refrigerant emissions rate

Percentage (%)

Energy Management

(1) Operational energy consumed (2) percentage grid electricity (3) percentage renewable

Gigajoules (GJ), Percentage (%)

Food Waste Management

Amount of food waste generated, percentage diverted from the waste stream

Metric tons (t), Percentage (%)

significantly reduce food waste. See also the Waste and Recycling subsection (pg20).

Data Security

(1) Number of data breaches (2) percentage involving personally identifiable information(PII) (3) number of customers affected

Number, Percentage (%)

FB-FR-230a.1 (1) 0

(2) N/A (3) N/A

Data Security

Description of approach to identifying and addressing data security risks

n/a

FB-FR-230a.2 See the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity subsection (pg29).

Food Safety

High-risk food safety violation rate

Rate

FB-FR-250a.1

We endeavor to disclose this information in the future. For more information on our approach, please see the Product Safety subsection (pg12).

Food Safety

(1) Number of recalls (2) number of units recalled (3) percentage of units recalled that are private-label products Revenue from products labeled and/or marketed to promote health and nutrition attributes

Number, Percentage (%)

FB-FR-250a.2 (1) Class I: 4 total events (2) 5 SKUs

(3) 0% of events involved private-label products.

Product Health & Nutrition

U.S. Dollars ($)

FB-FR-260a.1 In FY23 grocery products represented $796 million or 70% of Net Sales, and supplements represented $236

million or 21% of Net Sales. All food and supplements products meet the 260a.1 requirements: the products sold by Natural Grocers must meet high quality standards that are not known to contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The remaining $109 million or 9% of Net Sales relate to body care, pet and other products, most of which also have labeling and/ or marketing to promote health and nutrition attributes. See also the Product Standards and Environmental Sustainability section (pgs10-13) and Product Standards Appendix (pgs32-37).

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