the peoples supermarket - channel 4

suzybloo

Just watching this just now and I am appalled at the waste of good food when people in this country are having to scrape together every last penny to get food on their table, Prices should be slashed right down and there would be so much less waste. What he has found dumped in the skip I am sure us OS mse'ers would be delighted to use

Wonder where my nearest place would be!!!

misskaytee

Im watching too, its shocking the amount of perfectly good food they found on the skip raids :mad:

jackieglasgow

Thanks, I forgot this was on, will record it on the SKy box.

guccigoo

thanks for reminding im going to watch it at 9, channel4+1

roosterpotatoes

Dont tell me what happens lol, im watching the last 40 mins

kitschy

I'm watching this too. Sadly I live in a large town in Hampshire, and we are the type of place that is always last to pick up on these sort of wonderful ideas!

runninglea

tesco wins again - sorry spoilt the ending

artichoke

hi

this will be a really good series to watch..

I have met Arthur at a Making Local Food Work Conference and i am at the moment setting up a similar type venture in Derbyshire....there is a netowork of people across the country trying to do similar things whether that is a whole supermarket such as in the prog, or a group of people buying in bulk i one street and passing on the savings,,,

this model of food co-ops is very successful in the usa...

there are a number of ventures like this springing up around the country...of all different shapes and sizes



we can make it work here in the uk and create enterprises that sell food at a fair price for consumers and farmers..

art

please PM me if you are interested in setting up something in your street, village, town or any size community

gunsandbanjos

Just watched it, felt so sorry for the dairy farmer.

Could cheerfully have smacked the lady with the England top on and the terrible eye makeup! She was so snide and rude.

FelinePrincess

Loved this show and can't wait to watch it again next week - finally some decent tv on a sunday night!

Totally agree about the horrible lady in the england top, she was determined for it to fail and how could she go round saying "I've got a bone to pick with you" when she wasn't even a member, by all means give constructive criticism but to behave like that was downright rude!

I would love to have one of these near me

anguk

Just watched this on 4od, that poor farmer I felt so sorry for him, it's absolutely ridiculous that the supermarkets were only paying him 15p a litre but it was costing him more to produce it. No wonder so many dairy farmers are going out of business.

The amount of perfectly good food thrown away was shocking too, why throw away a full crate of wine just because 1 bottle broke?

I did wonder about the supermarkets cooperation in the food gathering though. As I understand it the bins are always kept under lock & key and the food is often deliberately soiled so people can't take things out of the skip. Yet here they were in broad daylight going through unlocked gates to the delivery yard and helping themselves, the swedes were even conveniently left in carrier bags for them. If I tried that I'd get thrown out by security for trespassing or theft yet the skip-divers and a camera crew could just walk in and go rooting through the bins? It all seemed a bit set up to me.

Agree about the mutton-dressed-as-lamb woman, she was getting on my nerves with her comments.