Harry Monk:
Although I agree that it wouldn’t cause a huge increase, there are far more movements involved with selling a can of beans than the trip from the RDC to the supermarket, starting possibly with the movement of iron ore to a steelworks where the steel for the can is made. I don’t know where white beans are grown but I doubt it is in the field next to the Heinz factory.
Interesting point.
The biggest baked bean factory…in the world…is in Wigan.
And no haricot beans are grown commercially in the UK.