Retailers warn rising employment and regulatory costs threaten high street price stability
The British Retail Consortium has warned Whitehall that higher employment taxes, business rates and packaging levies are severely limiting retailers’ ability to shield consumers from price rises.
A giant price tag forms a seesaw across a shop counter. A Whitehall official loads one end with weights labelled Employment tax, Business rates and Packaging levy. At the rising end, an increasingly airborne shopkeeper hangs from the tag’s hole, trying to pull it down, while a customer watches with an empty shopping basket.
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