Food-share database to end supermarket waste: Stores boost links with charities to help the hungry. Supermarkets and sandwich chains could soon share surplus food with families struggling in the economic downturn.
Under a proposal backed by the Government, retailers would log details of products approaching the end of their shelf-life on a database.
Charities, who are increasingly working with families who cannot afford to feed themselves, would use the information to arrange pick-ups of food and other unsold products set aside during the week by stores.
Charities would then put together parcels or cook meals using the surplus food and distribute it to the needy.
