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We want everyone to use our 'very green grocery'
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- John O'Reilly is head of retail and grocery at Changing Lives Together, which runs The Very Green Grocery inside its Re Use Warehouse in Crewe, Cheshire.
- The community grocery sells retailer's over supplies, short dated items and products where packaging has been damaged during transit.
- "If we don't pick this stuff up it goes in a big skip, in landfill.
Lee Bottomley Crewe BBCJohn O'Reilly is head of retail and grocery at Changing Lives Together"We are not a foodbank, everybody is welcome, everybody wants to save money and everybody wants to save good food from going to waste."
John O'Reilly is head of retail and grocery at Changing Lives Together, which runs The Very Green Grocery inside its Re Use Warehouse in Crewe, Cheshire.
The community grocery sells retailer's over supplies, short dated items and products where packaging has been damaged during transit.
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