Table of Contents About METRO 3 Message from Our President and CEO 5 Three Questions for Our Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications 6 12 35 45 Our Approach 7 Our Business Fundamentals 8 Materiality 9 Products and Services Colleagues Our Performance Engaging with Our Stakeholders 10 Responsible Procurement 13 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 36 Scorecard 46 Corporate Responsibility Governance 11 Health, Nutrition and Well-being 18 Health, Safety and Well-being 37 ESG Performance Data 53 Packaging and Printed Materials 20 P 22 39 Environment Communities Climate Change 23 Socioeconomic Contribution 40 Waste 29 Food Loss and Waste 32

About METRO METRO is a food and pharmacy leader in Québec and Ontario. About this report As a retailer, franchisor, distributor, manufacturer and provider of e-commerce services, we operate or This corporate responsibility (CR) report covers the operations and activities of the entire Corporation service a network of 995 food stores under several banners, including Metro, Metro Plus, Super C and for the 2024 fiscal year ending on September 28, 2024. This is our third report since publishing our Food Basics, as well as 639 pharmacies, primarily under the Jean Coutu, Brunet, Metro Pharmacy third five-year CR Plan for 2022–2026 for our food and pharmacy activities. We continue to report on and Food Basics Pharmacy banners. metrics based on the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Food Retailers & Distributors and Drug Retailers standards and, for the third year, on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2021 Universal Standards. All financial figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified. In the CR Plan and this report, METRO refers to the Corporation, and Metro refers to the conventional store banner. This report was reviewed by internal auditors but was not audited externally. More than A network of over Forward-looking information $21 billion 1,630 Throughout this report, we have used statements that may constitute forward-looking information. In general, any statement in this report that does not constitute historical fact may be considered a

not audited externally. More than A network of over Forward-looking information $21 billion 1,630 Throughout this report, we have used statements that may constitute forward-looking information. In general, any statement in this report that does not constitute historical fact may be considered a in sales stores forward-looking statement. The use of the future tense as well as expressions such as “commit,” “aim,” “vision,” “ambition,” “seek,” “targets,” “objectives” and other similar expressions is generally indicative of forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements that may be set out in this report refer to hypotheses on the Canadian food and pharmacy industries, targets and the economy in general as well as our 2025 action plan and 2022–2026 CR Plan. These forward-looking statements do not More than Founded in provide any guarantees as to the future performance of the Corporation and are subject to known and 97,000 1947 unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause the outcome to differ significantly. We believe these statements to be reasonable and relevant at the publication date and represent our expectations. METRO does not intend to update any forward-looking statements contained herein. colleagues For more information Marie-Claude Bacon Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications 11011 Maurice-Duplessis Blvd. Montréal (Québec) H1C 1V6 514-643-1086 [email protected]

Food (995 food stores) Supermarkets Discount stores Neighbourhood stores Specialized stores Québec 190 110 53 25 706 Metro Super C Marché Richelieu Première Moisson Metro Plus 315 2 11 Marché Ami Les 5 Saisons Adonis Ontario 132 145 1 1 283 Metro Food Basics Marché Ami Première Moisson UEUING Adonis New Brunswick 1 6 Marché Richelieu Marché Ami Total 337 255 375 28 Pharmacy (639 pharmacies) Québec 384 141 525 PJC Jean Coutu Brunet PJC Santé Brunet Plus PJC Santé Beauté Brunet Clinique Clini Plus Ontario 9 77 86 PJC Jean Coutu Metro Pharmacy PJC Santé Food Basics Pharmacy New Brunswick 28 28 PJC Jean Coutu PJC Santé PJC Santé Beauté Total 639

Message from Our Our long tradition of community involvement continues through both financial support and food President and CEO donations. We are well on the way to achieving our objective of donating an amount equal to 1% of average net earnings in the last three fiscal years. METRO is Prism certified by Imagine Canada, an organization that recognizes leaders in philanthropy. As a food and pharmacy leader, we believe it is our which sets out the measures we have taken to prevent This year, we also continued orts to promote duty to act every day to help create a sustainable and mitigate the risk of forced labour or child labour a diverse and our efforts to promote and inclusive future for our customers, colleagues, in our operations. Our Supplier Code of Conduct for inclusive organizational culture. The various actions we have implemented, such as the communities and partners. As we are halfway through responsible procurement, published in 2017, reflects n mental health implementing our Corporate Responsibility (CR) the importance we attach to this issue. We make launch of two new training courses on mental health Plan for 2022–2026, our rigorous approach in this considerable efforts to obtain the information required issues, have enabled us to make progress toward our regard, anchored in our business practices, continues from our business partners to ensure that they comply equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) objectives. In to create long-term value for the company and our with our Code. While the amount of information we need 2025, we will continue to raise awareness and develop stakeholders.

actices, continues from our business partners to ensure that they comply equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) objectives. In to create long-term value for the company and our with our Code. While the amount of information we need 2025, we will continue to raise awareness and develop stakeholders. Once again this year, the work of our to collect from them continues to grow, our ongoing our colleagues’ skills in this area. teams enabled us to make progress on our priorities, partnership with Sphera, formerly SupplyShift, enables I would like to acknowledge the tireless efforts of our and we are on track to achieve most of our objectives us to assess our suppliers’ practices and thus improve teams, at all levels of the company, who worked on within the next two years. transparency within our supply chain. our ESG priorities throughout the year and strived to continue offering the best value to our customers To boost our performance regarding environmental, The consequences of climate change are becoming in what continues to our customers social and governance (ESG) issues, we continue increasingly visible, and we are aware of the urgency be a challenging economic environment for many. I am grateful to be able to to evolve our executive compensation practices. In and necessity of implementing concrete measures to count to be able to fiscal 2024, the Human Resources Committee of make the transition to a lower-carbon economy.