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Tesco Express to trial giving away food near usage date

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Tesco Express has begun a trial giving expiring food to customers for free at the end of the day as it tries to cut food waste. The supermarket will give away some already discounted ‘yellow sticker’ items after 9.30pm in some of its Express stores…

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