Major supermarkets including Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrisons, Lidl and Asda have failed food standards inspections, MailOnline can reveal - some of which have received a zero rating.
Deveca Rose, 30, left her four young boys in squalid conditions in a locked home in Sutton, south London, to buy 'non essential' items at Sainsbury's as a horror house fire broke out.
Sainsbury's is to lay off 3,000 head office staff due to what it said was a 'particularly challenging cost environment', despite the firm seeing bumper Christmas sales.
It added to the gathering gloom over the economy at the start of the year as supermarket chain Sainsbury's yesterday revealed a cull of jobs while Primark said its sales were suffering.
Following the announcement, dozens of anguished customers have taken to social media to lament their concerns over the 'unfair' decision - with some branding it an 'attack on older people'.
Sainsbury's is to lay off 3,000 head office staff due to what it said was a 'particularly challenging cost environment', despite the firm seeing bumper Christmas sales.
Sainsbury's will cut more than 3,000 jobs and plans to close its remaining in-store cafes as part of a major restructure, the supermarket chain has announced.