The UK’s first full-scale social supermarket starts its national rollout on Monday, selling surplus food and drink to people on the verge of food poverty for up to 70% less than high street prices.
The first Community Shop, in West Norwood, south London, is backed by the mayor, Boris Johnson, and Rosie Boycott, chair of the London Food Board, which helped find its premises. Its launch – with a further 20 in the pipeline across the UK – follows the success of a pilot scheme in Goldthorpe, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, which opened a year ago.
The model was highlighted in a report last week by an all-party parliamentary inquiry as one that should be developed to “make a real and positive difference to people’s living standards”.
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