Social Supermarkets selling rejected food

tessie_bear

i like the idea of cheap food for people who are skint but i have 2 concerns namely
1) should the shop be selling unhealthy stuff such as biscuits if it is a social enterprise i think it should be healthy stuff and please tell me they dont sell alcohol
2) i think people on minimum wage who are struggling should be given acess as well
anyone been to it ?

Nada666

socks_uk wrote: »

And the day before it was on the news that 'working people' are now in poverty. Shouldn't they be allowed to get cheaper food too?

Only working families experience any real poverty (and some childless working-age unemployed people).

The usual suspects about whom most campaigners bleat have no real experience of being poor.

Nada666

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Get a kid with a syndrome and your quids in... You can rake in the cash and absolve yourself of responsibility for is behavioral/ learning deficit.

There is something sickening about parents being sickened by the discovery that their child is not sicker.

Too many do not express a sigh of relief - they express a cry of panic and desperately scramble to find someone who knows how to fill in the forms 'correctly'.

AnnieO1234

I too am local (ish) to this or at least it's been covered by the local press.

IIRC no alcohol or cigarettes will get offered, shoppers will be reviewed to see when they are okay to not shop there etc.

On the one hand it's a good idea, it helps eliminate waste and individuals still have the dignity of choosing what they want to eat and paying for it. There have been similar schemes in the states for decades.

Do I agree with it? Absolutely not. The entire system needs an overhaul where specific foods are available, I'm not talking gruel but instead of money give the food to prevent someone wasting benefits on other things.

It's essentially a glorified food bank, that feeds into capitalism too.

chesky

You need a licence to sell tobacco products or alcohol, so I think it highly unlikely that it would occur to those that set this up, to apply for one.

And please don't tell me that we're considering making biscuits anti-social as well.

DCFC79

Ive been to the company shop mentioned in the report, its not a bad idea, it saves on food thats ok being sent to landfill.

Engagedtobaz

"Get a kid with a syndrome and your quids in... You can rake in the cash and absolve yourself of responsibility for is behavioral/ learning deficit"

With regard to the above comment, whilst I would walk over hot coals to help and defend a parent of child with a disability, unfortunately what I think the poster is trying to say that there are far too many parents who use their childs disabilities to claim everything that they can. I for one have seen this from a neighbour who used to go around bragging that they had a brand new mobility car because their child had cerebal palsy. It used to wind up the hard working parents in the neighbourhood, some of which could barely afford a car.

Errata

Pity the poor sod whose income is a quid a week more than the claiming benefits level. They can enjoy the privilege of paying two thirds more for their grub than the person whose income is a quid a week less.

Edwardia

We were struggling a few years ago, and when we asked for Housing Benefit OH earned £10pw too much - but if he'd had the personal pension he didn't feel he could afford, we would have got it. So we just had to struggle along ourselves.

cavework

Perhaps educating people on how to eat healthy cost effective meals by cooking from scratch instead of fast pre cooked rubbish, would be a better way to go than just passing the cr** on that no one wants to eat?
Just a thought