Tag: Sainsbury’s

FareShare Midlands Launches Meal Production Initiative at Loxley House with Nottingham City Council and Sainsbury’s

Stuart Mitchell

In July, FareShare Midlands launched an innovative new meal production project in the commercial kitchen at Loxley House, Nottingham City Council’s HQ. In partnership with Nottingham Catering at the City Council, FareShare UK and Sainsbury’s, FareShare Midlands will produce meals that will be delivered directly to local charitable and not-for-profit organisations who are tackling hunger, poverty and the escalating effects of the cost of living crisis. Turning an environmental problem into a social solution, FareShare Midlands is the region’s largest food redistribution charity. Currently, 8.4m people in the UK are…

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Sainsbury’s rewards shoppers with bonus Nectar points as the ‘Great fruit & veg challenge’ returns

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has announced the return of the ‘Great fruit & veg challenge’ this summer, giving customers the opportunity to earn up to an additional 750 bonus Nectar points. Now in its third year, almost 1 million customers have previously taken part, with a whopping 106 million portions of fruit and veg purchased during the challenge. Running from Monday 18th July to Friday 2nd September, the challenge uses fun, interactive targets to encourage customers to pick up more fruit and vegetables when shopping at Sainsbury’s. In return, they will be rewarded…

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Sainsbury’s innovates own-brand toilet rolls reducing plastic by 30%

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has announced the launch of its new own-brand double length toilet rolls, designed to help customers reduce plastic waste at home. The new multipack rolls include double the number of sheets on each roll compared to the retailer’s standard offerings and on average use 30% less plastic. The products are available across Sainsbury’s ‘Super Soft’ and ‘House 247’ ranges. The double toilet rolls are estimated to save a total of 84 tonnes of plastic and 164 tonnes of cardboard from card cores (50%). By fitting more paper onto each…

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Sainsbury’s invests £1 million in UK retail first incubator programme for Black-led businesses

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s has announced the launch of a free 16-week incubator programme for Black-led start-up businesses, with a £1,000,000 commitment to supporting their transition to supermarket shelves. Created and delivered in partnership with Foundervine and Mission Ventures, the programme is open to entrepreneurial food and drink businesses seeking to grow but facing one of many barriers that might be holding them back. Whether it’s inadequate funding, lack of social capital and networks, or limited industry knowledge and expertise, it’s tough launching a new brand on such a large scale without access…

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Sainsbury’s gives new life to clothing returns

Stuart Mitchell

Following a successful trial, Sainsbury’s is rolling out its partnership with UK charity ‘Newlife’, to all supermarkets. Newlife has built its foundation around recycling, reprocessing, and reusing clothing to support 1.1 million disabled and terminally ill children in the UK. Since Sainsbury’s partnership with Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children first began in 2019, the retailer has donated 65.5 tonnes of unsellable clothing returns and faulty garments to the charity. With the partnership now rolling out across all UK stores, any of Sainsbury’s Tu clothing range that is not fit…

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