Supermarket written backwards makes TKRAMREPUS. That is also the name of a ‘reverse’ supermarket in Amsterdam. This pop-up shop on the Prinsengracht is open today and tomorrow. Visitors are expected to bring and not pick up goods.
All products and donations go to the approximately 4000 people in Amsterdam who depend on the local food bank.
More users due to corona, but less stuff
Food bank board member Freek Wessels saw a 30 percent increase in the number of households knocking on the door for groceries this year. He attributes this to the corona pandemic.
Food banks themselves don’t have it easy either. Wessels: “Supermarkets that help us have fewer products that are close to the sell-by date.”
The reverse supermarket is an idea of a local job platform for young people. A spokesperson: “We receive 700 tubes of toothpaste and 1500 chocolate letters from suppliers. We especially need pasta sauce, spreads, soup and canned meat and pasta.”
Up to and including this morning, the proceeds were forty full crates of groceries.
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