“Food giants respond to worries over packaging”

May 7, 2021 | In the news

When, as a child, our groceries were delivered by the nice man from Walton Hassell & Port (kids ask your grandparents), they came in a cardboard box. Supermarkets kept piles of boxes by the checkouts for you to use instead of plastic bags. Am I, once again, missing something, or would this not be a bumper recycling bonus? When Iceland stopped selling pre-packaged fruit and veg, sales fell by 40%. If all supermarkets agreed to stop, would that not sort the problem. Is this rocket science…? (PS Walton H&P were taken over by Fine Fare who were taken over by Somerfield who…)

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

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