SHOPPERS at Crediton’s Tesco store have a long history of helping those less fortunate and placing items in the store’s Crediton Foodbank bin.

A new initiative by Crediton Tesco and Crediton Foodbank to help shoppers is the introduction of “shelf talkers”, notices near food items and other products desperately needed by the Foodbank clients.

Currently, said Crediton Foodbank co-ordinator, Chris Parsons, the food bank urgently requires for struggling families, cereals, sugar, coffee, jam, tinned tomatoes, cooking oil, tomato ketchup and brown sauce, mayonnaise, tinned ham, tinned potatoes, rice pudding, custard, tinned fruit, tinned meat meals, jars of pasta sauce, washing up liquid, soap powder tablets and toilet rolls.

Chris said: “I am delighted that Tesco is launching the ‘shelf talkers’ to enable people to identify Crediton Foodbank needs on their way around the store rather than go to the end and passing the food bin on their way out.

“The food bin has been at Crediton’s Tesco store for more than six years and we are grateful to everyone who has donated and Tesco for its assistance.”

Andrew Drayton, the store’s community champion, said: “Tesco is very pleased to be a long-term supporter of Crediton Foodbank and we hope this will really help shoppers and mean that the food bank will get the items it needs.”

Look out for the “shelf talkers” notices around the store and if able, why not buy that something extra to place in the food bank bin as you leave the store?