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M&S launches £3.80 bakery surprise bags to help save unsold food from waste

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Sep 17, 2026 — 3 min read

M&S launches £3.80 bakery surprise bags - Image supplied M&S

By Business Correspondent

M&S shoppers can now pick up a bag of bakery treats worth at least £10.20 for £3.80, as the retailer rolls out a new deal aimed at cutting food waste.

The new Surprise Bags are available through the Too Good To Go app at more than 350 M&S Food stores across the UK.

The bags are made up of bakery products that haven't sold during the day. They could include pastries, cookies, bread and other treats made in the store.

Each bag contains three or four items, with a minimum retail value of £10.20. Customers pay £3.80 and collect their bag from their local M&S one hour before the store closes, from Monday to Saturday.

The nationwide launch follows a trial in a smaller number of M&S stores.

It is one of several ways M&S is trying to reduce the amount of food that ends up as waste.

The retailer also discounts unsold food before stores close and has found other ways to use products that might otherwise be thrown away.

Surplus bread, for example, can be turned into frozen garlic bread, while extra-ripe bananas are sold in reduced-price bags.

M&S also redistributes surplus food to charities.

The retailer said last week that morethan 130 million meals had been donated through its partnership with Neighbourly.

The company has a target of halving food waste by 2030.

Lucinda Langton, Head of Sustainability at M&S Food, said the Too Good To Go bags were a way of putting that commitment into practice.

The partnership also gives shoppers a chance to pick up M&S bakery products at a much lower price, although the exact contents of each bag will be a surprise.

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Chelsea Kerr, Managing Director at Too Good To Go UK & Ireland, said the partnership would make it easier for more people to save food that might otherwise go unsold.

Food waste remains a major problem in the UK. WRAP estimates that 10.7 million tonnes of food are wasted in the country each year, including 6.4 million tonnes from households.

For shoppers who don't mind not knowing exactly what they're getting, the new M&S bags offer another way to save money while helping make sure unsold food gets eaten rather than wasted.

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