Supermarkets dominate 96% of British grocery sales – but new polling shows that more than half of Brits would prefer to buy their food at a cooperative or employee-owned shop.

Around 54% of people surveyed by charity Foodrise said the best way for food shops to be run is by cooperatives, meaning people-centred enterprises owned and run by members.

The most well-known example of this is the Co-operative Group but there are also smaller community-led food shops across the country.

Just 3% of Foodrise’s survey respondents wanted food shops to be run by the state and 16% wanted them run to be by private companies.

Carrick Greengrocers in Northern Ireland is a community-owned food shop. Its co-founder Beth Bell said: “We came about as a result of a group of people in Carrickfergus

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