Alex Cleland

Morning, Clare.

How are you?

As a retailer, prices going up are of absolutely no benefit to my business or any other retail unit.

Mainly because the higher the prices, the less people are going to spend because they're restricted what their disposable income

So that's no good to us.

But the prices are rising because of costs that have been forced on us by the government.

So trying to put a price cap, if they're talking about the staples, like bread, milk and the rest of it, who suffers there?

Because the people that will suffer there will be the farmers.

And the farmers get kicked in the teeth enough in this country without...

without the government then putting something in place that's going to force them to take the hit, which you can be absolutely guaranteed.

The likes of these big multiple retailers, they will squeeze their suppliers more and more and more.

They won't lose margin, their suppliers will.

So their suppliers are going to be under more pressure, which is going to make it more difficult for them to produce goods.

the chances are they'll go out of business.

There's enough small retailers at the minute losing their businesses because of what government have done.

We are...

I think that's a cop-out, to be completely honest.

And the reason I say that is if you look at the billions that are wasted every single year through government spending and the public service, there's billions wasted.

There's no accountability.

I mean, the government, these guys are supposed to be the people that are controlling that.