Convenience stores across Scotland are urging the thousands of prepaid food card holders to use it in their shops as they join forces with the organisation behind the scheme to boost its use. Social Security Scotland’s Best Start Foods card, which can help expectant mothers and new parents buy healthy food for their children, can be used in more than 2,200 local shops.
Those shops are set to promote the scheme as part of the partnership with Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living Programme, and will encourage the 40,000 cardholders to use it in their local shop.
Parents and guardians are given up to £39.60 every four weeks and can use it to buy things like milk, infant formula, fresh, frozen or tinned fruit and vegetables, pulses, and fresh eggs. Among the chains involved in the new scheme are Spar, Keystore, Nisa and Premier.
