Pollinator health is important to our future, which is why we’re asking associates to make it important to them, too.īees will sometimes make their homes at our stores. Instead of exterminating those bees, we want associates to do this: Tell your manager or report bee colonies using ServiceChannel or the Fix It app. One in four bee species is at risk of extinction, and pollinators like bees, butterflies and even beetles are collectively responsible for as many as one in three bites of the food we eat. Now, nearly eight years later, 5037 can say they’ve long loved the bees, as a Walmart-wide initiative works to catch up-driving change for some vulnerable, and valuable, little pollinators. The next day, I went into my store manager and told him I had found our new sustainability project.”Īnd found it she had. “We were leaving the library, and my granddaughter said to me, ‘Granny, we have to keep talking about the bees! Without them, we might not have any food,’” Debbie says. They were going to do their part to help save the bees.
The next day, Debbie went in to work at Store 5037 with a new mission in mind. The pair were researching for a science project, when a National Geographic article led them to a quick, if not somewhat startling, conclusion: The bees need our help. She didn’t know it, but that trip to the library was about to set her store in an entirely new direction. Debbie Lovelady’s love of bees began one morning at the Yulee Branch Public Library in Yulee, Florida, when her granddaughter was in grade school.ĭebbie, a 32-year Walmart associate who says she’s done almost every job at the store, is now a People Lead at Store 5037 in Yulee.
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