Is the cost of a weekly shop causing financial strain for you or a family you know?
We need to reduce the demand for charitable donations by creating an intervention that helps people before they reach crisis point. Anyone who knows me knows I’ve been asking for years for a place to achieve this is town, but it’s never happened. So I’ve always been a “Make a bouquet from those flowers in reach” type of chick so here goes. 💚
Re-imagine has created a Social Mini Mart full of surplus, short-dated, donated, and purchased food.
Social supermarkets are run by voluntary organisations, working with local food producers and suppliers to provide products at a lower cost than traditional supermarkets. These shops are aimed at anyone who is struggling to afford food, but there are no specific criteria for who can become a member.
A Social Supermarket trades in surplus or unsaleable products from mainstream food producers: items with misprinted packaging the supermarkets can’t accept, or which don’t have enough shelf life to make it into mainstream retail or often there are broken and damaged products.
While the model varies from place to place, social supermarkets are distinct from food banks in that users pay for their groceries, albeit at large discounts. Whatever form it takes, the fact that they are spreading can be seen as a mark of the brutal impact of food costs on many families.
According to recent UN figures, 8.4 million people in the UK are food insecure and 5.6% of those aged over 15 have said it is a struggle to get enough food. Perhaps it’s no surprise then that dozens more of these social supermarkets are due to open across the UK over the next year.
It will be 5 items for £2.50, the collected Bakery, Fruit and Vegetables which (as is now) will be FREE, so that means if just 50 people a week use the Mini-mart that’s £125 in buying power each week. But not only that, you’ll have a say in which items you’d like to have available t
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