A SUPERMARKET in Horwich could be the friendliest store in town after another employee’s act of charity.

The store hit the headlines in April last year when employee Christian Trouesdale volunteered to help a pensioner home with his shopping.

And now the store is in the limelight again after another employee donated a trolley full of food to a shopper, to help the homeless.

Customer Rachel McMahon was gifted the food after she asked the employee if could she have the empty cardboard boxes in the store to use as insulation for a night of sleeping rough, in aid of charity.

The 25-year-old said: “I went into the store with my mum. We always do our weekly shop there and when we were walking through Aldi there was lots of cardboard and my mum said ‘why don’t you ask can you have some of it’.

“So I saw an employee who looked like a manager and said ‘excuse me I know this is a bit weird but can I have some of your cardboard?’ and I explained to him that I was sleeping rough for charity and would be using it as insulation.”

The employee told Miss McMahon to take as much cardboard as she wanted but also told her to finish her shopping, come back with her trolley and he would fill it up for free.

Miss McMahon, of Aspull, added: “He filled it high with soup, beans, pasta and other stuff that can be preserved.

“I was really overwhelmed.

“He said he wanted to help because he had been to Manchester at the weekend and had seen so many homeless people in the cold and couldn’t believe so many people were living like that and sleeping rough.”

The food will be used by the Atherton and Leigh Shelter for HoPe.

A spokesman for Aldi said: “Our Horwich store is at the heart of the community and our employees there are always keen to help local charities and good causes when they can.

“We admire the work that Rachel and Shelter For HoPe do and were only too happy to make this donation.”

Miss McMahon and her friend, slept out in Market Street, Atherton, on Saturday, alongside 40 other volunteers and raised more than £5,000 for the cause.