Sir, I am a former buyer for a supermarket chain and my mother had similar suspicions as Mrs B. M. Boyd (letter, June 23) about imperfect items in packs of food. I had to reassure her regularly that the supermarkets do not deliberately put a bad peach in each punnet.
Of course sizes of eggs (and tomatoes) are strictly governed by Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ rules.
While I’m at it, the idea that the smell of freshly baked bread is pumped to the front of stores is another myth about supermarkets.
SEAN BARNES
Wapping, London