Next (NXT.L), Britain’s most profitable clothing retailer, Greggs (GRG.L), a booming food-to-go chain, and discount group B&M (BMEB.L) need to absorb higher commodity, energy, labour and freight costs without pushing prices up to the detriment of sales.
For Next, the worry is the gap between price rises and customers’ wage increases, while Greggs has lifted its own staff...