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Morrisons under fire for rejecting 10,000 Cornish pasties due to "late delivery"

Bradford-based supermarket chain Morrisons has come under heavy fire this week after the Feeding Britain report found that it had rejected 10,000 Cornish pasties because the delivery van turned up 17 minutes late.

The Feeding Britain report hit headlines after it exposed the scale of food waste in the UK, around 4.2 million tonnes of which Morrisons share was only a fraction.

The report reveals that a food bank in Cornwall was offered the pasties after they were rejected by the giant supermarket chain.

A spokesperson for Morrisons told the Daily Mail: “We are puzzled by this claim because it’s our policy not to turn away fresh food from our depots.

“We’d very much like to look at this further but it’s difficult when the report has no record of the time or location of the delivery, nor details of the supplier.”

The Feeding Britain report called for action to speed the processing of benefits to ensure new claimants are not left for weeks without an income, stop companies charging higher prices to the poor and end the “scandal” of tonnes of waste food destroyed by supermarkets and food manufacturers.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .