'Social' Supermarket Opens To Benefit Claimants

[Del]

Britain's first 'social' supermarket has opened in Yorkshire where those on benefits can buy cut-price stock from major manufacturers that otherwise would have been thrown away.

Members of Community Shop can buy good quality, branded goods for a fraction of the usual shelf price such as a Warburtons loaf for just 20p, or a tin of Heinz beans for 29p.

If the scheme being piloted in the ex-mining community of Goldthorpe, near Barnsley, is successful, organisers plan to roll stores out across the country.

The products from major chains such as Asda, Marks & Spencer and Morrisons are fit for consumption and in-date, but may have been rejected for a number of reasons, such as a problem with the labelling, or as a result of over-stocking.

Explaining how it works, Sky's Gerard Tubb said: "You have to be a member, you have to be on means-tested benefits which obviously means that you don't have much money, and you can join.

http://news.sky.com/story/1179822/social-supermarket-opens-to-benefit-claimants

 

[Goat]

A loaf for 20p is a BARGAIN.

 

[rascal]

A loaf for 20p is a BARGAIN.

They're about £1.29 now aren't they? £1.09 off

 

[peteblue]

Bill wants to know if they sell footballers.....

 

[EFCNIK]

So people on benefits get cheaper food.

Riiight.

Shouldn't this be for less well off people who don't claim benefits?

 

[Goat]

So people on benefits get cheaper food.

Riiight.

Shouldn't this be for less well off people who don't claim benefits?

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[orchard]

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I think what he's meaning is that there are a lot of poor who are working, or not claiming, in more or equal need of such a service mate. This stance may have some vindication from a report published last week iirc

 

[Goat]

I think what he's meaning is that there are a lot of poor who are working, or not claiming, in more or equal need of such a service mate. This stance may have some vindication from a report published last week iirc

If they are working and not claiming, more fool them, theres help out there.

 

[Eggs]

.....good idea getting stuff the Supermarkets are about to throw out. Hope it doesn't get abused by those who buy and sell on to make a profit.

 

[orchard]

Maybe they're too busy working and looking after their domestic life to familiarise themselves with a convoluted system, or believe it's only for those that are more desperate than they are ?

 

[Kurt.]

Think it's ace.... It's criminal the food that gets wasted in supermarkets on a daily basis.

 

[Goat]

Maybe they're too busy working and looking after their domestic life to familiarise themselves with a convoluted system, or believe it's only for those that are more desperate than they are ?

Hence me saying more fool them.

 

[Kurt.]

We should maybe give some of the food to the good Muslims of Bethnal Green to keep them going whilst they are out all hours cleaning up the streets of alcoholic drug abusing cockneys.

 

[malfosse]

Why can't the supermarkets just sell it themselves at a discounted price. Anything that cuts down on food waste can only be a good thing

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Nice to see food that would otherwise be wasted put to good use. Not sure why it wouldn't be open to everyone though.