Morrisons is to offer boxes of unsold food in all its stores to combat food waste and help customers save money.
The supermarket will become the first the UK to sell food past its ‘best before’ date through a ground-breaking app.
Shoppers will be able to use the Too Good To Go app to purchase boxes of unsold fruit and veg, bakery and deli items worth at least £10 for £3.09.
You won't know what's inside the box until you pick it up from your local supermarket.
The service has been trialled in a handful of stores and will now be available in all 494 Morrisons supermarkets nationwide from Tuesday, November 26.
The move aims to help customers on a budget and to provide another channel for food that might otherwise be wasted.
Jayne Wall, Market Street Director at Morrisons, said : “We are using technology to help us reduce food waste and to help more people afford to eat well.
"It will also mean we waste less food this Christmas as it will find a home for products that can’t be sold after the festive period.”
Morrisons expects to distribute 350,000 boxes of unsold food in 2020. This will reduce CO2 emissions by 882 tonnes: the equivalent of driving from London to Edinburgh 5,351 times. Morrisons says it is committed to reducing operational food waste by 50 per cent by 2030.
Hayley Conick, UK Country Manager at Too Good To Go, said: “Every single day perfectly edible food goes to waste simply because it isn’t sold, and this is having detrimental effects on our planet.
"We need greater awareness of the issue of food waste, so we are delighted to welcome Morrisons as our first UK supermarket partner.
"Together we can fight food waste and ensure that quality surplus produce doesn’t end up in the bin.”
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