General Article Britain’s new wave of militant grocers

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So much food goes into landfill while many families go hungry. Sarah Butler meets the shopkeepers fighting waste.

By Sarah Butler

A steady stream of shoppers are filling their baskets with biscuits, fizzy pop, risotto rice and tins of tomatoes at Niftie’s grocery store in Dover on a cold January morning. Everything they’re buying would have been thrown out by a mainstream supermarket. Shelves are piled with food well past its best-before date, slightly squashed cakes and some pretty unusual d...

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