Jack’s beans talk

SIR – Tesco has launched a discount retailer, Jack’s. Baked beans are offered at 29p. But at Lidl they are 23p.

Back in the early Nineties, Tesco sold baked beans for 6p. Yet the cost of ingredients remains low, so why has there been such a jump in price? Sacha Gosling

Felixstowe, Suffolk