£500 offered for baked beans in a can

Tesco is offering to pay £500 for a ten-year-old can of budget baked beans. The supermarket chain wants the can to display in its headquarters to mark ten years of its cut-price Value brand. But, despite producing millions of cans, the supermarket did not keep any for itself . . .

The beans were launched with 40 other Value foods in 1993 and originally sold for 17p.

AND we may now have a winner!
Must hand it to Tesco -- they got a lot of publicity for their £500 offer.

Posted by David on May 12, 2003 11:13 AM