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Customers will notice a small change in their shopping experience at participating A&P, Dominion, Ultra Food & Drug, the Barn, Loeb and Food Basics stores this summer. For the second year in a row, the company is dimming store lights by up to 50 per cent in an effort to reduce power consumption and relieve pressure on Ontario's power grid.

Last summer, A&P Canada was recognized by Toronto Hydro for dimming the lights in the Summer Challenge for Business. This year's decision to reduce the lighting is one of many environmental initiatives under Leave it Greener, the company's environmental platform.

Here is what A&P Canada is already doing to protect the environment:

• Since the launch of the program in June 2006, more than two million reusable bags have been sold to date
• All flyers from A&P Canada are now printed on 100 per cent recycled paper
• More than 25,000 metric tons of cardboard are diverted from landfills every year
• Since 1996, A&P, Dominion, Ultra Food & Drug and the Barn customers have been able to bring back their plastics bags and deposit them    into recycling bins at store locations across Ontario. In fall 2007 Food Basics began the program
• Since 2003, A&P Canada has diverted more than 4.4 million pounds of plastic film from landfills, the equivalent of approximately 316 million plastics bags