We want everyone to use our 'very green grocery'
Changing Lives Together operates The Very Green Grocery in Crewe, offering affordable groceries to the community. Customers pay £7 to shop and typically leave with goods worth £30-£35, helping to reduce food waste. The charity aims to expand its operations and increase partnerships with retailers to collect surplus food.
- ▪The Very Green Grocery sells surplus and short-dated food items to the community.
- ▪Customers pay £7 for a shopping experience that usually yields goods worth significantly more.
- ▪The grocery is open twice a week, with plans to expand its hours as logistics allow.
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We want everyone to use our 'very green grocery'Just nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleLee BottomleyCreweBBCJohn O'Reilly is head of retail and grocery at Changing Lives Together"We are not a foodbank, everybody is welcome, everybody wants to save money and everybody wants to save good food from going to waste."John O'Reilly is head of retail and grocery at Changing Lives Together, which runs The Very Green Grocery inside its ReUse Warehouse in Crewe, Cheshire.The community grocery sells retailer's over supplies, short dated items and products where packaging has been damaged during transit."If we don't pick this stuff up it goes in a big skip, in landfill. It's good food.
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