{"id":112221,"date":"2022-05-16T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112221"},"modified":"2022-05-16T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:43:32","slug":"guardian-social-supermarkets-offer-choice-and-self-esteem-to-hard-up-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112221","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Social supermarkets offer choice and self-esteem to hard-up workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the crypt of a 283-year-old London church, you would not normally expect to see displays of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and fish next to shelves of tinned food, toilet rolls and nappies, and customers with baskets doing their weekly shop.<\/span><\/p>\n

But from September, that will be the scene at the City of London\u2019s first social supermarket, which is to open in the vaults of Christ Church Spitalfields, a Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed church close to the financial district. It will replace a food bank set up during the pandemic<\/a> that has been used by 20 to 70 families a week during the past year.<\/p>\n

Small social supermarkets have been springing up across the UK <\/a>in recent years, some of them having started out as food banks. (At a social supermarket users pay for their groceries, but get a large discount.) They cater for low-income families \u2013 in the case of Christ Church these are referred by the local primary school \u2013 and pay a membership fee and\/or a weekly fee for their shop.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Great idea and sustained hard work from the team at \u2066@ccspits<\/a>\u2069 \u2066@dioceseoflondon<\/a>\u2069 \u2066@StepneyLives<\/a>\u2069. <\/p>\n

Social supermarkets offer choice and self-esteem to hard-up workers. https:\/\/t.co\/MiI9AkHpTx<\/a><\/p>\n

— Joanne Woolway Grenfell (@joannegrenfell) May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n