The Mancunian Way: 'Kids are eating their way round the shop'
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Heat or eat. It’s become the shorthand term to describe the horrendous dilemma faced by many during the cost-of-living crisis.
But for some of the families who shop at a social supermarket in Wigan it’s an everyday reality. As temperatures have plummeted this week, more and more customers are turning up at Fur Clemt - a local term for ‘very hungry’.
Last year around 90 people were coming through the door each day, now it's around 150. Things are now 'much worse' for those at the sharp end of the crisis, says director Katy Brittain, who set up the supermarket, which sells discounted surplus stock to customers who pay a £5 annual membership fee, alongside mum Shirley Southworth. "It's horrendous at the moment," said Katy. "Christmas was awful, so many people needed support that genuinely just have nothing. "We have people who don't know what to do anymore, they're at their wits' end.
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