Tesco to trial giving expiring food away to shoppers

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Link: Tesco to trial giving expiring food away to shoppers - BBC News

 

Tesco is to begin a trial giving expiring food to customers for free at the end of the day as it tries to cut food waste.

 

The supermarket will give away some already discounted "yellow sticker" items after 21:30 in some of its smaller Express stores in coming months.

 

Tesco already donates expiring food to charities and foodbanks. It says it is taking this step to try to meet its goal to halve food waste in a decade.

 

The company however said that the expiring food would be offered free to charities and shop workers before customers could take it.

 

A spokesman said the trial would begin in a small number of its Express stores in the UK. The locations have not been specified, nor the starting date.

 

"This trial will allow customers to take any remaining yellow-stickered items for free at the end of the day, after they have first been offered to charities and colleagues," they added.

 

Tesco is Britain's largest supermarket chain, with a 27.8% market share. It has 3,700 UK stores and about 750 more abroad.

 

All major supermarket chains have partnerships to send surplus food to food banks and community groups and offer steep discounts on expiring food.

 

But Tesco's trial appears to be the first direct-to-customer policy in the UK...