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Shropshire supermarket offering free food to charities
Thursday 19th August 2010, 7:05AM BST.
Bosses at a Shropshire supermarket have launched a fresh appeal for local charities to contact the store if they would be interested in receiving free food donations.
Despite an earlier call by the Sainsbury’s store at Meole Brace for needy charities to come forward, none have so far done so.
The latest appeal comes after Isaiah 58, a charity for homeless people in Shropshire which previously benefited from food donations, closed.
Store manager Peter Briggs, said: “Donating our surplus food is a great way of supporting local charities and also reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill.
“Very often at the end of each day there is perfectly good food left over that has reached its display-by date, but is still within the use-by date.
“Where this happens we would rather give this food to charities for free than see it go to waste, so we are advocating linking up with a local charity to donate this surplus food to them.”
This can be fruit and vegetables, bread, milk and other foods that charities who house or look after people may have to purchase on a daily basis.
Mr Briggs added: “Sainsbury’s has been involved in donating safe, edible and nutritious food to local charities since 1998 and our commitment to effective waste management in preventing ‘fit for purpose’ food going to landfill is a key part of our community strategy here in Shropshire and the wider area.
“We would urge any charitable group that provides meals for people and who may be interested in receiving food donations to get in touch with the store.”
For further information contact Peter Briggs, store manager at Sainsbury’s, Shrewsbury, on (01743) 244744.
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And failing that, maybe Sainsbury’s could elect not to prosecute those poor scavengers who go after the food once it’s in their disposal bins.
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I remember when the money could not apparently be found to support the Isaiah Project which by all accounts was a successful scheme and was going to be even more needed with the national debt crisis and looming unemployment.
At the same time however, a large sum of money (£130,000)that would have enabled this vital work to continue had been set aside for an ill thought out and unnecessary restoration of the remains of the Old Potts railway ticket office in Abbey Foregate. A railway that I believe went bust after 20 years.
The scaffold has remained on this derelict site for several years now, looking unsightly and at cost to us taxpayers I presume.
This has never got off the ground the costs required having escalated to £350,000+ so why can this money, still sitting there, not be diverted by the council to a far more sensible and worthwhile cause?
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Great idea.
However, I wouldn’t have any “free” fresh food from Sainsburys.
My Mum made an online order from them once and they called to say their scales had broken so they were unable to weigh all her veg/fruit etc… so it’d be estimated – Fine, no problem.
All the fruit/veg she ordered came in loose bags with no weight/receipt/sell-by date and they said because of the inconvenience they wouldnt charge her? – how odd she thought. Half of the items she ordered were in punnets, but she didnt get these – they were also loose with no labels.
When unpacking the fruit/veg, she found a lot of it was off. She rang Sainsburys and they were quite snotty to her stating “Well, you didnt pay for it, I dont see how you can complain”. Of course, she was more than willing and HAD paid for these. She was just refunded for the fruit/veg. It was more the principle of it.
After 2 days the rest of it had gone off completely. Basically, they’d used the old stock on my Mother and to avoid getting in trouble for it, they didn’t charge her!
Not the point when you have a week of meals planned and all your fruit and veg is off 2 days later!!!!
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Sainsbury were good enough on that occasion to issue the customer with “free fruit/veg” which should be up to standards however if you recieved food that was “Off” then Sainsburys will of replaced it, whether it was goodwill or paid for.
The staff at Sainsburys you will find are always willing to help & maybe Sainsburys should stop doing all the giving away as it seems you can’t please anybody.
You also stated that there was:
no weight/receipt/sell-by date, As stated by the collegaue they were to “estimate” the goods, How could you of had a weight when the scales were broken?
Also Produce never has a date on the “Weigh Yourself” items.
It just shows that when supermarkets do that bit extra for customers it can never be enough!
I think that the donations to the charites is a brilliant way forward, especially when a high amount of the population really dont care.
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Well I can tell you now that they didn’t offer to refund the “off” items. My Mum rang them both straight after delivery and the next day when she noticed the rest was turning. As I said, they were quite snotty to her stating “Well, you didnt pay for it, I dont see how you can complain…”
I’m sure that every single set of scales in the shop hadn’t broken and nevertheless, estimates or not, they should not of replaced all her ordered food (which was in punnets or bags) with loose food which was clearly due to go “off”. To me, it just seemed like a way to just get rid of the old stock.
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