26-11-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com

Sainsbury's launches scheme labelling items useful to food banks

Customers will be urged to include priority and long expiry date items in their shop for donation after checkoutDedicated shelf-edge labels alerting shoppers to food and drink items that are most useful to food banks are to be introduced by a major supermarket for the first time after a trial led to a three-fold rise in donations.From Friday, customers visiting more than 1,400 branches of Sainsbury’s will be urged to include priority items such as tinned fish, meat and vegetables, longlife
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