Supermarket staff are being trained to help identify "hidden carers" who look after elderly or sick relatives and neighbours without financial, emotional and practical support.
Sainsbury's is coaching pharmacists and other workers about how to discreetly ask those collecting prescriptions on behalf of others or shopping with separate baskets before directing them to health professionals in the stores who might be able to help them.
The government-backed scheme is to be tested in 14 of the company's London branches in the spring before being rolled out across England. This follows a successful experiment in the Torbay, Devon this year.
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