Sainsbury’s has launched a dedicated ‘Best of British’ page on its groceries website, in a move to better champion and profile British grown and produced products with its millions of online customers.
The new page spotlights over 450 100% British-sourced grocery products – including popular produce, meat, dairy, eggs and chilled essentials – allowing shoppers to find and buy locally produced products even more easily and better support local producers and growers.
Sainsbury’s works with over 15,000 British farmers sourcing £2bn worth of produce every year. The retailer has made a series of investments to help them, including a significant £72m of support in the last couple of years alone. Last year the retailer also announced that it would be making an annual investment into its Dairy Development Group to support dairy farms in the future.
Simon Roberts, Chief Executive Officer at Sainsbury’s, said: “Many of our customers want to support British suppliers and make more conscious choices when doing their food shop, and our new Buy British webpage helps them to do just that through a curation of over 450 quality, 100% locally sourced products.
“We recognise the pressures that British farmers are facing and the importance of supporting them to maintain a resilient UK food system for the long term. Our relationships with farmers and suppliers are incredibly important to us and we remain committed to sourcing British as much as we can, now and in the future.”
Dr Luke Evans MP said: “This is another huge step forward for my ‘Buy British’ button campaign! With Sainsbury’s launching a ‘Buy British’ section online they become the latest supermarket to support homegrown produce.
NFU President Tom Bradshaw said: “It’s fantastic to see supermarkets getting behind Dr Luke Evans campaign and I’m delighted that Sainsbury’s is also backing British farmers by adding a British section online in order to signpost shoppers to home-grown produce.
“Our own independent research shows the public want to buy more British food from retailers and we have been championing this issue for some time. The addition of the British section online by Sainsbury’s will help customers support British farmers.”
