The community shop appears a good idea

"Community  Shop will work on a membership basis. There will be 750 members, all living locally and on income support. Members can shop for surplus food at 70 per cent cheaper than usual prices, from leading supermarkets, other major retailers and top brands, including Marks and Spencer, Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, The Co-operative, Ocado, Innocent, Brake Brothers, Nestlé and Muller"

It is estimated that around 3.5 million tonnes of food is wasted every year in the UK, before it even reaches people’s shopping basket, with about 10 per cent of that figure good enough to be eaten – because it is simply in damaged packaging or has been mislabelled. In other cases, food has simply been over-ordered. But instead of being used to feed people, some of this surplus is sent to landfill, fed to animals, or turned into energy through anaerobic digestion. Community Shop demonstrates why this need not be the case.

http://community-shop.co.uk/news/giving-surplus-food-social-purpose.aspx