But it has spread worldwide and is growing in popularity in Britain. Preppers Shop UK, the nation's "number one preppers' quartermaster's store", sells "freeze-dried larder stock, industrial ...

For most folks, the word “prepper” evokes an image of someone who’s got way too much time on their hands at best, and who spends way too much time following conspiracies on the Internet at ...

Lincoln Miles, who owns Preppers Shop in Wadebridge, Cornwall, founded his store a decade ago. He told The Guardian in November, “In the past couple of years, it’s just exploded. There are ...