16-09-2020 17:53 via retailgazette.co.uk

What are grocers doing to tackle food poverty?

Between April 1 last year and March 31 this year, food bank charity The Trussell Trust distributed 1.9 million three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis, marking an 18 per cent increase on the previous year. And that full year period only factored in the early stages of the pandemic-induced lockdown.
Meanwhile, the Child Poverty Action Group revealed last month that the Covid-19 pandemic has left 80 per cent of low-income families in a worse financial position than before the crisis
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