Sainsbury’s has added a ‘purchase British’ part to its web site in a transfer to raised champion and profile British grown meals.
It turns into the most important grocery store to launch a devoted ‘Better of British’ web page on its groceries web site following a marketing campaign push by farmers and MPs.
The brand new web page spotlights over 450 British-sourced grocery merchandise, together with meat, dairy, eggs and chilled meals.
Sainsbury’s, which is the UK’s second largest grocery store chain after Tesco, works with over 15,000 British farmers sourcing £2bn value of produce yearly.
It turns into the third retailer so as to add such a web page following within the footsteps of Aldi and Morrisons.
Simon Roberts, CEO at Sainsbury’s, stated: “Lots of our prospects wish to help British suppliers and make extra acutely aware selections when doing their meals store, and our new Purchase British webpage helps them to just do that.
“We recognise the pressures that British farmers are dealing with and the significance of supporting them to keep up a resilient UK meals system for the long run.
“{Our relationships} with farmers and suppliers are extremely essential to us and we stay dedicated to sourcing British as a lot as we are able to, now and sooner or later.”
It follows an open letter to supermarkets, signed by over 120 cross-party MPs, which known as for a web-based filter signposting consumers to UK-grown produce.
The NFU has additionally been asking retailers to decide to signposting British produce for plenty of years.
The union’s new president, Tom Bradshaw, welcomed at this time’s transfer: “I’m delighted that Sainsbury’s can also be backing British farmers by including a British part on-line as a way to signpost consumers to home-grown produce.
“Our personal impartial analysis exhibits the general public wish to purchase extra British meals from retailers and we’ve got been championing this challenge for a while.
“The addition of the British part on-line by Sainsbury’s will assist prospects help British farmers.”
In December 2023, Morrisons grew to become the primary main grocery store chain so as to add a ‘purchase British’ tab to its web site.
Aldi adopted, which introduced final month a ‘purchase British’ part to its web site in a bid to assist consumers help British companies.
