Supermarkets must help those in England’s ‘food deserts’, says Which?

Consumer group's research shows acute lack of access to healthy, affordable food in some areas

The big supermarkets need to step up support for low-income customers marooned in England's food deserts" to enable them to readily access healthy groceries during the cost of living crisis, according to the consumer group Which?.

The scarcity of affordable, healthy food is so acute in some of the poorest parts of Birmingham, Liverpool, Bradford, Durham and the Welsh valleys that the vast majority of neighbourhoods in these areas should get targeted help, Which? says.