BRITAIN'S cheapest supermarket could open in Barnsley as soon as next month - stocked with cut-price food other stores have thrown out.
Leaflets publicising the scheme have already been delivered to homes in Goldthorpe, which is being targeted as an area of serious poverty.
The first ‘social supermarket’ expects its prices to be a third of those found on normal shop shelves.
Items will come from shops such as Marks and Spencer, Morrisons and Ocado.
But shoppers will have to have membership cards, issued only to families below a certain income threshold.
More than 1,000 similar stores in Spain and Greece have opened during the recession. Twenty more are planned for the UK next year.
Sarah Dunwell, who is masterminding the project in the town, said the shop would not be stocked with basic ‘austerity’ lines.
She said: "We’ll have staples such as sugar, pasta and rice but also more expensive goods such as French cheeses, lasagnes, desserts and household products.
"This isn't cheap food for the poor - it will bring a huge range of foods to people on the cusp of poverty.
"It takes stuff that will not make it to supermarket shelves and uses it to feed people who need it most."
Many items thrown away aren't even past their sell-by dates - Sarah said cheeses with the wrong weights couldn’t go on sale, nor chocolate mousses mispackaged with lemon mousse lids.
"While we have people in the UK going hungry it is wrong such foods should be thrown away," she added.
